Description: Rectangular base
(w:
0.49 x h:
1.01 x d:
0.53) of grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on two faces at the same period.
a) on the face, within a border consisting of a single scored line
(die, w:
0.42 x h:
0.81);
b) on the left-hand face, at the top.
Letters: a) irregular capitals: 0.03-0.04. b) Lettering: 0.025.
Date: 198-209 CE (titulature)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, N Temple (see 433).
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(a) To Publius Septimius Geta, most noble Caesar (all erased) the colony of Septimia Tyre, metropolis of Phoenicia and of other cities. (b) Septimius Heraclitus, saw to the erection.
Commentary
Septimius Heraclitus: discussed at PIR S 457, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/12178
For honours to Tyre by Lepcis (Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augusta Fidelis Lepcis Magna) see SEG 37.1463, available at PHI 322204
Bibliography: Ciotti, 1948 114-8, pl.XXV.1; IRT, 1952, 437, whence IRT, 2009, 437, whence EDH 059340; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Face a: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 838)
Fig. 2. Face a: Tantillo (2005)