Description: Part of a panel of cream marble (surviving width, w:
0.86 x h:
0.57 x d:
0.01).
Text: Inscribed within a moulded border.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: line 1-3, 0.07; line 4, 0.055.
Date: CE 157: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Theatre.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[When Emperor] Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrian Antoninus [Augustus Pius] was chief priest, holding tribunician power for the twentieth time, acclaimed victor twice, consul [four times, father of the country], [---] of the theatre with public money [---] with marbles [---]
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 372, whence Thomasson, 1996 76d IRT, 2009, 372, whence EDH 030817; discussed Guey, 1951b , whence AE 1952.177.a; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XIII.34)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1666)