Description: Moulded base (w:
1.00 x h:
1.42 x d:
0.80) of grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w:
0.425 x h:
0.50).
Letters: Capitals with some Rustic forms: 0.04.
Date: CE 138-161 (reign)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Theatre,
in the centre of the orchestra.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To emperor Antoninus Augustus Pius; Quintus Pompeius Saturninus, of the Roman voting tribe Quirina, set up the statue which he promised in return for the office of aedile.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 376, whence IRT, 2009, 376, whence EDH 059299; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 903 or 1896 or 1898)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXI.26)