Description:
block
(w:
0.67 x h:
0.50 x d:
0.50) of grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: First century lapidary capital: from top of block, line 1, 0.04-0.11; line 2, 0.145-0.29; line 3, 0.35-0.45; to bottom, 0.50.
Date: CE 71-79 (reign, lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, near the Baptistry.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
3: From the material and style of lettering, probably Vespasian and Titus.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[---] the Lepcitanians [gave?---] to [---] Augustus, chief priest [---and] to [---] son of Augustus [---]
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 345, whence IRT, 2009, 345, whence EDH 059277; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 758)