Description: Rectangular base
(w:
0.50 x h:
0.95 x d:
0.49) of brown limestone, recessed at the sides.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel
(die, w:
0.35 x h:
0.78); the surface has deteriorated since 1947.
Letters: Rustic capitals: Lines 1-3, 0.05-0.06, remainder 0.04.
Date: CE 193-211 (reign)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, in the passage between the Temple of Rome and Augustus and the Temple of Liber Pater.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Julia Augusta, mother of the Augusti (revised to the singular) and of the camps; Messius Atticus, centurion of cohort seven of the praetorian guard, the pious avengers, paid his vow.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 408, whence IRT, 2009, 408, whence EDH 059325; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVI.31)
Fig. 2. Tantillo (2005)