Description:
Block (w:
2.58 x h:
0.95 x d:
0.28) of grey-brown limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face, which is worn, within a moulded tabella ansata (die, w:
2.75 x h:
0.68)
Letters: Lapidary capitals: line 1, (0.09; line 2, 0.06; line 3, 0.05; line 4, 0.10; lines 5-6, 0.07.
Date: 1 January - 9 December 119 CE: GODOT and GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio II,
In the wall of a cistern, south of the Hadrianic Baths.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
2: [P]arthico [f(ilio)] Leroy, 1976 ; Nerua[e] Leroy, 1976 ; T[raiano] IRT, 1952
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
When emperor Caesar [Trajan] Hadrian Augustus, son of deified Trajan victor in Parthia, grandson of deified Nerva, chief priest, was holding tribunician power for the [fourth] time, consul for the third, Quintus Servilius Candidus brought fresh water into the colony at his own expense, having sought it out and raised it.
Bibliography: CIL VIII, 1881 11 (from a copy by Pouttion) whence ILS 5754; Romanelli, 1925a, 223ff; Romanelli, 1925, 141ff; IRT, 1952, 357, whence IRT, 2009, 357; Leroy, 1976 , with a plate, whence AE 1977.848, EDH 020899; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 246 Lastre)