Description: Moulded base (w:
0.49 x h:
1.31 x d:
0.45) of brown limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w:
0.20 x h:
0.60).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.05-0.04.
Date: CE 138-161 (reign)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio III,
Chalcidicum, beside the central gable.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Fro the safety of the emperor Antoninus Augustus Pius and his children; Caius Claudius Septimius Afer gave as a gift, dedicated and set up a statue of Cupid to Venus Calchidica.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1949, 58; IRT, 1952, 316, whence IRT, 2009, 316, whence EDH 059265; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVI.14)