Description: Elaborate marble
console (w:
0.71 x h:
0.43 x d:
1.49,
projection 0.60);
the left-hand margin and left side appear to have been burned.
Text: Inscribed on the front upper border.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: 0.05.
Date: After 141 CE (deification of Faustina)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus,
in the Temple of Liber Pater.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To deified Faustina, the Lepcitanians publicly.
Commentary
Diva Faustina: PIR A 0715, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/1341, or 716, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/1342
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 380, whence IRT, 2009, 380, whence EDH 059303; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 49.III.8)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (AM Crown Copyright reserved)