Description:
panel (w:
4.56 x h:
0.69 x d:
0.25)
and fragment from the left end of similar panel (w:
1.24 x h:
0.65 x d:
0.27), both of grey limestone, inscribed within a moulded border
(die of complete panel, w:
4.35 x h:
0.48).
The first letter of line 2 of the fragment is set 0.98 from the border, as against 0.11 on the complete panel, but in all
other respects they seem to have been
identical.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving faces.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.25: line 2, 0.16.
Date: CE 30 (prosopography)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Decumanus maximus. Both found beside the base of a formal arch,
which spans the street between Regio II, insula 1 and Regio III, ins 1.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
2: III The superscript bar shows that a figure is lost.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Augusta Salutaris. Caius Vibius Marsus, proconsul for the third year dedicated (scil. this).
Commentary
C. Vibius Marsus: PIR V 0388; https://pir.bbaw.de/id/14378
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 308, whence Thomasson, 1996 24c, Benseddik, 2010 61, IRT, 2009, 308, whence EDH 025359; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1946 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 46.XXI.28)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 817)