Description: Rectangular marble
base
(w:
0.59 x h:
0.07 x d:
0.23).
Text: Inscribed on one face
Letters: Irregular capitals: av. 0.025.
Date: 14-23 CE (prosopography)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Found in the Forum Vetus, Temple of Rome and Augustus.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Drusus Caesar, son of emperor Tiberius Caesar Augustus, grandson of deified Augustus; Perperna of Lepcis (scil. set this up).
Bibliography: Relazioni di Scavo 30.7.33; Aurigemma, 1940c, 29ff., whence AE 1948.11; IRT, 1952, 335, whence IRT, 2009, 335, whence EDH 019695; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XII.13)
Fig. 2. Face: Tantillo (n.d.)