Description:
base, in plan three sides of an octagon
(maximum width w:
0.68 x h:
0.28 x d:
0.34),
moulded at the top and bottom of the three faces.
Text: Inscribed on the central face
(die, w:
0.41 x h:
0.15). Uniform width 400 and 429 which are dated by 400 in 216.
Letters: Rustic capitals: line 1, 0.025; line 2, 0.03; line 3, 0.025; line 4, 0.02.
Date: CE 216 from dates of matching dedication, 400
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Severianum:
Severan Basilica, west aisle.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Julia Augusta, mother of emperor Caesar Marcus Aurellius Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus and of the camps and of the senate and of the (?his) country; the Septimian Lepcitanians.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 404, whence IRT, 2009, 404, whence EDH 059323; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 333 Leica)