Description: Broken marble
block (w:
0.33 x h:
0.20 x d:
0.15, width incomplete).
Text: Inscribed on one face; on the under face is a guilloche panel, which may be contemporary.
Letters: Second century capitals: line 1, 0.05; line 2, 0.045; line 3, 0.04.
Date: CE 120: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Theatre, possibly originally from the fountain behind.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus,] son of deified [Trajan, victor in Parthia, grandson of deified Nerva, chief priest holding tribunician power for the fourth time, consul] for the third, [raised the question of permanent] water [supply. Quintus Servilius Candidus brought it at his own expense.]
Commentary
Line 2. trib. pot. IIII - 10 Dec. 119 - 9 Dec. 120.
The text is apparently a duplicate of 358, qv.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 359, whence IRT, 2009, 359, whence EDH 059285; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1653 Leica)