Description: Moulded base
(w:
0.65 x h:
1.56 x d:
0.62) of grey brown limestone.
A final spray follows the text; on the right-hand face, a patera in relief.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel
(die, w:
0.30 x h:
0.66).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.04-0.03.
Date: Between 10 Dec. CE 200 - 9 Dec. CE 201: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Theatre, near the West end of the orchestra.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus Pius, holding tribunician power for the fourth time, proconsul, son of emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia, most fortunate, father of the country; the Curia Pia Severiana set this up in accordance with a vow.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1950, 74, note c, whence AE 1950.163c; IRT, 1952, 420, whence IRT, 2009, 420, whence EDH 021979; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. 266 Lastre)