Description: Rectangular base
(w:
0.61 x h:
0.17 x d:
0.53) of grey limestone,
inscribed on one face; uniform with 325.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Irregular capitals: 0.04-0.045.
Date: Perhaps CE 14 (titulature)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio III,
Chalcidicum, in front of the central shrine.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Emperor Caesar Augustus, son of Augustus, father of the country, chief priest (at Rome).
Commentary
Line 1. See also ILS 151. Tiberius never accepted the praenomen Imperator or the title pater patriae. The inscription was perhaps cut immediately after the death of Augustus, before his deification and before the proper titles of the new emperor were known.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 329, whence IRT, 2009, 329, whence EDH 059271; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 633)