Description: Rectangular base (w:
0.85 x h:
1.15 x d:
0.75) of cream marble.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (w:
0.54 x h:
0.84).
Letters: Rustic capitals: lines 1, 6, 7 and 8, 0.06; remainder, 0.05.
Date: CE 133: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, Temple of Liber Pater.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, son of deified Trajan victor in Parthia, grandson of deified Nerva, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the seventeenth time, consul three times, father of the country; the Lepcitanians (scil. set this up) publicly to one who was their preserver in all circumstances.
Commentary
Line 5. trib. pot. XVII - 10 Dec. 132 - 9 Dec. 133.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 362, whence IRT, 2009, 362, whence EDH 059287; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XIV.5)
Fig. 2. Face: Tantillo (2005)