Description: Eleven blocks of compact grey limestone, the successive courses of a monumental inscription.
a) Eight blocks, total length: 7.64.
b) Three blocks, total length: 2.67.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving faces.
Letters: Lapidary capitals.a) Lettering from top of block: line 1, 0.07-0.22; I. 2, 0.28-0.41; to bottom, 0.48.b) Lettering: from top
of block: line 1 (decapitated) 0.13; line 2, 0.19-0.31; to bottom, 0.33.
Date: From CE 31 to 37: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Punic Market. Found re-used in the stylobate of the north-eastern colonnade of the surrounding portico and now reconstituted nearby.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Reconstituted near the surrounding portico of the Market.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
( a.)To Tiberius Caesar Augustus, son of the deified Augustus, grandson of deified Julius, chief priest, consul [for the fifth time], acclaimed victor for the eighth, holding tribunician power for the thirty-?[---]
b. [---]proconsul[---] patron [saw to it---]
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 332, whence IRT, 2009, 332, whence EDH 022107; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 325)