Description: Seven damaged blocks of grey limestone, with mouldings top and bottom,
one of them an angle-block with mouldings continued on the left-hand face also
(lengths varying × 0.51);
part of a low rectangular base with sockets on the upper face for a statue or for a group of statuary.
a) Five blocks, part of a single text.
b) Two blocks, apparently from a duplicate text.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving faces.
Letters: Lapidary capitals, rather irregular: 0.075-0.09.
Date: c. CE 18-19 (titulature)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(a. ) To Germanicus Caesar, son of [Tiberius] Augustus, pontifex, [augur], consul for the second time, acclaimed victor twice, flamen (priest) of Augustus, the Lepcitanians publicly. b.: [---] Caesar [---] consul for the second time [---]
Commentary
See Trillmich (1988), 53-54.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1940c, 27 ff., fig. 14, whence AE 1948.10; IRT, 1952, 334, whence IRT, 2009, 334, whence EDH 019692; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXIII.12)
Fig. 3. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XII.19)
Fig. 4. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XVII.7)