Description: Moulded base of marble
(w:
0.66 x h:
1.42 x d:
0.64). The fastening for a bronze statue survives.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel
(die, w:
0.35 x h:
0.65).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.055.
Date: CE 197 (titulature)
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 Marcus Aurellius Antoninus Caesar, nominated to be emperor, son of Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, the Lepcitanians publicly.
Commentary
Line 3: Imperator destinatus in 197.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 418, whence IRT, 2009, 418, whence EDH 059327; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVI.10)
Fig. 2. Top, showing fastening: Tantillo (2004)