Description: Four blocks of grey limestone (each approx. 0.53 high) probably from the same monumental inscription.
a) On the North face of the East tower:
b) On the West face of the East tower:
c) On the South face of the wall West of the gate:
d) On the top of the East tower:
Text: Inscribed on the surviving faces.
Letters: Capitals: line 1 ( erased ) approx., 0.19; line 2. 0.15-0.16.
Date: CE 81-96 (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Cardo Maximus,
Built into the Byzantine Gate.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Built into the Byzantine Gate.
a.1: Probably Domitian - the material and lettering suggest a first century date.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(a),band d are not usefully translatable
c.(erased)[---]us, son of Quintus, of the Roman voting tribe Quirina [---]
Bibliography: a and b: Bartoccini, 1924 70, a) and b) only; c: Méhier de Mathuisieulx, 1906 79, whence CIL VIII, suppl.4, 1916 22677; IRT, 1952, 350, whence IRT, 2009, 350, whence EDH 059279
Images
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