Description:
base of grey limestone
(w:
0.77 x h:
0.39 x d:
0.44) formerly moulded top and bottom but later mutilated.
The whole inscribed surface is badly abraded.
Uniform with 320 and thus dated to 3 B.C..
Text: Inscribed on one face
Letters: Irregular capitals: 0.04.
Date: 3 B.C. (see 320)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, loose in the
Temple of Rome and Augustus.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Caius Caesar, son of Augustus, designated consul, pontifex (priest), chief of the youth; the Fulvii of Lepcis gave this as a gift.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 328, whence IRT, 2009, 328, whence EDH 059270; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVII.22)