Description: Base in the form of an ornamental pilaster of grey limestone(w:
0.34 x h:
1.44 x d:
0.34) rounded in front, flattened and fluted at the sides; carved in one piece with base and capitals, the capitals of individual
local forms, in the front derivative from Ionic, on the sides from Corinthian. Inscribed on the front.
a) On the abacus.
b) In the tabella ansata below the scroll
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: a) Rustic capitals: 0.04. b) Rustic capitals: 0.035.
Date: Probably second to third centuries. (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
City centre.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
a. To Mercury and Minerva. b. Animosa, daughter of Symmachus, gave and dedicated (scil. this).
Commentary
See Marmouri (2008), 143, available at Persée.
Bibliography: Clermont-Ganneau, 1903a , whence CIL VIII, suppl.4, 1916 22668; Romanelli, 1925, fig. 21; IRT, 1952, 303, whence IRT, 2009, 303, whence EDH 059257 ; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. A. 161)