Description: Five fragments of a white marble
panel,
one from the upper edge (w:
0.235 x h:
0.215)
and four with no edges surviving (the largest, w:
0.29 x h:
0.335).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second century lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.10, remainder, 0.09.
Date: CE 139: GODOT and GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
6: cos II desig. II p p : the lettering in line 6 is very much more widely spaced than in line 5 or, indeed, in any other line in this inscription: COS II in fact occupies space for half a line. The proposed reading would produce asymmetry and cannot therefore be accepted.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[To emperor Caesar] Titus A[elius Hadrian]us A[ntoninus Augustus Pius son of] deified Hadrian, [grandson of deified Trajan] victor in Parthia, great grandson of [ deified Nerva], chief [priest], holding tribunician power for the second time, consul twice, [ father of the country]; the Lepcitanians [publicly]
Bibliography: Degrassi A., 1954 III; IRT, 1952, 368, whence IRT, 2009, 368, whence EDH 059292; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.X.35)