Description: Four fragments, all probably from the same panel of white marble.
a) and b) w:
0.20 x h:
0.11 and w:
0.25 x h:
0.20, no edges surviving.
c) w:
0.12 x h:
0.12, no edges surviving.
d) w:
0.16 x h:
0.22, lower border.
Text: Inscribed within a moulded border
Letters: a) and b): line 1, lapidary capitals, 0.05; line 2, Second century capitals, 0.035; line 3, 0.045.c) Second century capitals,
line 1, 0.035; line 2, 0.045.d) Second century capitals, line 1, 0.045; line 2, 0.04.
Date: CE 113: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(a and b.) [When the emperor Caesar Nerva] Trajan Augustus Germanicus Dacicus was [chief priest, holding tribunician] power for the seventeenth time, acclaimed victor [six times, consul six times, father of the country---]
c. Not usefully translatable.
d.[---] ? honoured [---](a singular subject)(scil. took some action)[---]
Commentary
a and b) line 2. trib. pot. XVII - 10 Dec. 112 - 9 Dec. 113.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 354, whence IRT, 2009, 354, whence EDH 059281; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.X.34)