Description: Moulded base
(w:
1.15 x h:
1.18 x d:
1.46) of brown limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Rustic capitals: line 1, 0.115; line 2, 0.11; line 3, 0.10; line. 4. 0.105; line 5, 0.08.
Date: After CE 211 (deification of Severus)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus,
found built into the East wall of the Baptistry.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To deified Pius Severus Augustus, Quintus Marcius Dioga, in charge of the corn supply of the sacred city (scil. Rome)
Commentary
Quintus Marcius Dioga: PIR M 0231, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/8905
Bibliography: Romanelli, 1925, 130 , whence AE 1926.160 ; Aurigemma, 1930, 77 ff; IRT, 1952, 401, whence IRT, 2009, 401, whence EDH 025528; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XII.23)
Fig. 2. Tantillo (2005)
Fig. 3. Tantillo (n.d.)