Description: Two marble
balustrade blocks, re-used to form a base
(w:
1.13 x h:
0.65 x d:
0.79).
Probably uniform with 393 in the Hadrianic Baths. Later erased and re-used for 283, q.v.
Text: Inscribed on one face, with moulding below.
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.04-0.05.
Date: CE 202: GODOT, GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: ,
Forum Severianum.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(All erased.) To emperor Caesar Marcus [Aurelius] Antoninus Pius Augustus, son of Severus Augustus, holding tribunician power for the fifth time, proconsul, consul; the Septimian Lepcitanians, publicly, an account of his outstanding and godlike indulgence to them.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 423, whence IRT, 2009, 423, whence EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059330; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1951 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 51.VII.45)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1951 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 51.VI.6)
Fig. 3. Monument, showing 283 over 423: Tantillo (2003)
Fig. 4. Face, showing 283 over 423: Tantillo (2008)
Fig. 5. Monument, upper part: Tantillo (2008)
Fig. 6. Monument, side: Tantillo (2008)
Fig. 7. Monument, back: Tantillo (2008)