Description:
balustrade block
(w:
1.12 x h:
0.55
0.55) of compact grey limestone,
with a moulding along the lower edge and sockets for beams at the back; inscribed on the face, considerably weathered.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: First century lapidary capitals: from top of block line 1, 0.04-0.20; I. 2, 0.28-0.40: moulding 0.475-0.55.
Date: First century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
On the sea-shore West of the Forum Vetus, beside the remains of an early Imperial structure.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[---] Cornutus (case unknown) [---templ?]e of Neptune [---]
Bibliography: Romanelli, 1925 134, whence AE 1926.162; IRT, 1952, 306, whence IRT, 2009, 306, whence EDH 025534; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.X.11)