Description: Left half of a rectangular base
(w:
0.39 x h:
0.74 x d:
0.68)
of yellow limestone marked with red; inscribed on one face.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face: i above ii
Letters: Lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.075; line 2, 0.07, lines 4- 5, 0.045.
Date: First-second centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Punic Market, in the South West portico.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
5: . . . ]/pot(estate) IRT, 2009; aed(ilicia) pot(estate) Guey, 1953
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
i. Sacred to Neptune Augustus, Caius Sossius [---]nus, quattuor-vir with [---] powers, (scil. set this up) at his own expense.
[ ]edile, quattuorvir [ ]at his own expense
English translation
Translation by: Caroline Barron
ii. [ ]edile, quattuorvir [ ]at his own expense
Commentary
Discussion of the Neo-Punic text: Jongeling, K. 1983, ‘Neo-punische-latijnse inscripties uit Lepcis Magna (Libye)’ in , 413; Adams (2003), 221-222; Jongeling (2008), Labdah N21; Cooley (2012), 253.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 305, whence IRT, 2009, 305, whence discussed Guey, 1953 353-60, whence AE 1954.201l; Février-della Vida, 1953 358-60, whence Levi Della Vida, 1987 30, whence Jongeling, 2008 Labdah N21 EDH 018206; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.