Description: Fragments of a pair of uniform marble
panels
(width, approx. 0.61).
Text: Inscribed within an incised border
(die, 0.49);
the two panels differ in thickness only (a, 0.02 and
b, 0.035-0.04).
Letters: Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.05.
Date: CE 222-235 (reign)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(a) To Julia Mamaea Augusta, mother (all erased) of our Augustus, the Septimian [Lepcitanians] publicly [---]
(b) [---] the Septimian Lepcitanians publicly[---]
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 450, whence IRT, 2009, 450, whence a: EDH 059353, b: EDH 067676; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. a: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XII.6)
Fig. 2. b: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.X.29)