Description: Moulded base of marble
(w:
0.75 x h:
1.30 x d:
0.50). Uniform with 392, 403, 434.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a recessed panel
(die, w:
0.38 x h:
0.56). The border is cut back to make room for the final letter of line 1.
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.030-0.025.
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
Interpretive
Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) M(arco) Aurelio Antonino
Augusto Pio tribuniciae
potestatis IIII proco(n)s(uli)
Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) L(uci) Septimi Seueri
5Pii Pertinacis Augusti
Arabici Adiabenici Par-
thici maximi felicissimi
p(atris) p(atriae) filio
M(arcus) Iunius Punicus proc(urator) sexage-
10narius prouinciae Thraciae
centenarius Alexandriae ad
Mercurium
Diplomatic
IMPCAESMAURELIOANTONINO
AUGUSTOPIOTRIBUNICIAE
POTESTATISIIIIPROCOS
IMPCAESLSEPTIMISEUERI
5PIIPERTINACISAUGUSTI
ARABICIADIABENICIPAR
THICIMAXIMIFELICISSIMI
PPFILIO
MIUNIUSPUNICUSPROCSEXAGE
10NARIUSPROUINCIAETHRACIAE
CENTENARIUSALEXANDRIAEAD
MERCURIUM
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; Marcus Junius Punicus, equestrian imperial agent at a salary of sixty thousand sesterces
in charge of the province of Thrace, and at a salary of one hundred thousand in Alexandria, at the Temple of Mercury.
Bibliography: Caputo, 1940, 168 ff., fig, 20; IRT, 1952, 422, whence IRT, 2009, 422, whence EDH 059329; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Face: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1141 Leica)
Fig. 2. View: Tantillo (2004)
Fig. 3. View: Tantillo (2003)
