Description:
balustrade block
(w:
0.67 x h:
0.53
surviving depth 0.51) of grey limestone, with moulding top and bottom and socket for 16 cm beam at the back.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: One line of Neo-Punic follows the Latin text. Lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.14; line 2 0.10. The surviving text of this line
reads: [. . . provided] for the work the meqim elim [ . . . ]
Date: 81-96 CE (reign)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Harbour among the ruins of the
Temple of Jupiter Dolichenus; seen by Delaporte in 1806
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Later presented to King George IV, and, since 1862,
in the British Museum.
2: . . . Flamen] Aug(usti) or . . . ] aug(ur)
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
i. [---] Domitian (case unknown) son of [Uespasian ---] ? priest of Aug[ustus] ( or augur, i.e. priest), sufete [---]
English translation
Translation by: Caroline Barron
ii. . . . for the work of the place on . . .
Commentary
Discussion of the Neo-Punic text: Levi della Vida (1971), 457-469; Vattioni, F. 1971. 'Tripolitania 1 et Tobie, iii, 6' in 78, 242-246; Teixidor (1986), 215; Garbini, G. 1974. 'Dieci anni di epigrafia punica nel Magreb (1965-1974) in 6, 6; Garbini (1987), 12; Giardina (1988), 67-87; Elmayer (1997), Jongeling (2008), Labdah N1.
Bibliography: Delaporte, 1836 13, whence CIL VIII, 1881, 7; Reynolds, 1951 118-119; IRT, 1952, 349, whence AE 1954.183a IRT, 2009, 349, whence EDH 067664; Levi Della Vida, 1927 92-93; Levi Della Vida, 1967 395-409; Levi Della Vida, 1987 9, whence Jongeling, 2008 Labdah N1; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.