Description: The greater part of three composite panels of grey limestone, moulded above and below.
a) Seven blocks (together, 6.76 × height 0.51), from the central gable.
b) Nine blocks (together, w:
8.44 x h:
0.52), from the left- hand gable.
c) Eight blocks, from the right-hand gable.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving faces
Letters: a) Lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.125; line 2, 0.08.b) Lapidary capitals: 0.145.c) Lapidary capitals: 0.145.
Date: CE 11-12: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio III,
Chalcidicum, from the architraves of the central and lateral gables of the facade.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Interpretive
a
Numini Imp(eratoris) Caesaris Diui f(ili) Aug(usti) pont(ificis) m[ax(imi) imp(eratoris)] [XX] [co(n)s(ulis) XII]I tr(ibunicia) pot(estate) XXXIIII calchidicum et porticus et
porta et uia ab XVuir(is) sac(rorum) [c. 7dedica]ta est b
Iddibal Himilis f(ilius) Caphada Aemilius d(e) s(ua) p(ecunia) f(aciendum) c(urauit) calchidicum et porticus et portam et
uiam c
Iddibal Himilis f(ilius) Caphada Aemilius d(e) s(ua) p(ecunia) f(aciendum) c(urauit) calcidicum et porticus et porta et uia
Diplomatic
a
NUMINIIMPCAESARISDIUIFAUGPONTM[..][.............]ITRPOTXXXIIIICALCHIDICUMETPORTICUSET
PORTAETUIAABXVUIRSAC[·······......]TAEST b
IDDIBALHIMILISFCAPHADAAEMILIUSDSPFCCALCHIDICUMETPORTICUSETPORTAMETUIAM c
IDDIBALHIMILISFCAPHADAAEMILIUSDSPFCCALCIDICUMETPORTICUSETPORTAETUIA
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
a. To the divine power of Emperor Caesar Augustus, son of the deified (scil. Caesar), [chief] priest, [acclaimed victor twenty
times, consul thirteen times], holding tribunician power for the thirty-fourth; the calchidicum and the porticoes and the
gate and the road were dedicated by the commitee of fifteen in charge of sacred affairs [---]
b. Iddibal Caphada Aemilius, son of Himilis, saw to the construction of the calchidicum, porticoes, gate and street at his
own expense.
c. Iddibal Caphada Aemilius, son of Himilis, saw to the construction of the calchidicum, porticoes, gate and street at his
own expense. (a different, incorrect, case is used for gate and road.)
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1940c, 17ff, fig 10, = text a), whence AE 1948.7, 8; IRT, 1952, 324, whence IRT, 2009, 324, whence EDH 019680; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XV.9)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XV.8)
Fig. 3. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XV.10)
