Description:
block (w:
0.57 x h:
0.52; depth unknown.) of compact grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: from top of block: line 1, 0.025-0.09; line 27 0.125-0.195; to bottom of block, 0.52.
Date: Second century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, built into the outer North East face of the apse of Church II.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[---] Trajan (case unknown) [---] the Lepcitanians [---]
Commentary
The material and style of lettering are likely to be later than Hadrian.
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1931, 42; IRT, 1952, 365, whence IRT, 2009, 365, whence EDH 059290; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XIV.16)