Description: Three blocks
(lengths varying w:
0.52 x h:
0.55), of compact grey limestone, inscribed on one face with a monumental inscription,
moulded at the lower edge. There are sockets for 14 cm. timbers along the back of the upper face.
a) 0.82 long
b) 0.92 long:
c) 1.108 long
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: from top of block, line 1, 0.075-0.235; line 2, 0.25-0.39, moulding, 0.405-0.52.
Date: CE 93-94: GODOT (titulature)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, from the architrave of the Flavian Temple, south of the Curia.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
a.[---] of [---] Vespasian [---] of [---]-dia Pia[---]
b.[---] Vesapsian (case unknown)[---]ris sufete ( both in the ablative case)
c.[---holding tribunician power for the] thirteeth time, acclaimed victor twenty-[two times---] 80.000 sesterces [---]
Bibliography: Romanelli, 1925, 130 , whence AE 1926.161 ; IRT, 1952, 348, whence IRT, 2009, 348, whence EDH 025531; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 243 Lastre)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 244 Lastre)