Description: Lower part of a base
(w:
0.50 x h:
0.75 x d:
0.46).
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w:
0.38 x h:
0.55).
Letters: lines 1-7, 0.05; remainder, 0.035-0.04.
Date: 98-117 CE (reign)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
On the sea-shore west of the Temple of Neptune.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
1-3: [---]A[c. 1 - 2]/[c. 3 Me]rcurio/[c. 5 - 6]imus IRT, 1952
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[---] to Mercury [---]imus Priscillanus, slave of Trajan Augustus, superintendent of this tax on seaborne goods and of the levy of a twentieth on inheritances at Lepcis Magna, gave and dedicated (scil. this).
Commentary
See further Marmouri, art.cit.
Bibliography: Romanelli, 1925, 134, whence AE, 1926.164; De Laet, 1949, 252, whence AE, 1954.20a; Reynolds, 1951 120-121, pl.XX,2; IRT, 1952, 302, whence IRT, 2009, 302, whence EDH 025540; Marmouri, 2008 143-144; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.X.10)