Description: Fragment from the upper right-hand corner of a marble
panel
(w:
0.34 x h:
0.47 x d:
0.085).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.105.
Date: Perhaps Geta or Seuerus Alexander. (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Theatre.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(Not usefully translatable)
Commentary
Perhaps princeps iuventutis. The subject of the inscription, whose name has been erased, was probably Geta or perhaps Severus Alexander.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 447, whence IRT, 2009, 447, whence EDH 059350; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXIV.30)