Description: Four fragments of a panel of white marble.
Text: Inscribed within a tabella ansata (w:
0.53 x h:
0.48. top left-hand corner;
w:
0.57 x h:
0.48, top right-hand corner, w:
0.88 x h:
0.22, bottom left-hand corner; w:
0.22 x h:
0.16, no edges surviving).
Letters: Lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.115; line 2, 0.075; line 3. 0.12; last line 0.085.
Date: CE 153: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
The three first were found in the Forum Vetus, in the Temple of Liber Pater; the findspot of the fourth is not recorded.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
a. When emperor Caesar [Titus Aelius] Hadrian [Antoninus] Augustus Pius [was chief priest, holding tribunician] power for the sixteenth time, [acclaimed victor twice, consul] four times, father of the country,[---]
( b.) Calpurnia, daughter of Quintus [---]
Bibliography: Relazioni di Scavo 27.5.34; IRT, 1952, 371, whence IRT, 2009, 371, whence EDH 059295; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.X.24)