Description: Moulded base (w:
0.60 x h:
1.58 x d:
0.58), of fine-grained limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w:
0.36 x h:
0.95). Uniform with 453.
Letters: Rustic capitals 0.035-0.045.
Date: CE 236: GODOT, GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Vaults of the Temple of Rome and Augustus.
2: Very lightly erased, after damnatio in 238.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To emperor Caesar Caius Julius Verus Maximinus (all erased after emperor) Pius Felix Augustus, father of the country, holding tribunician power for the second time, consul, proconsul, preserver of the world; the Septimian Lepcitanians publicly.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 452, whence IRT, 2009, 452, whence EDH 059355; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 921)
Fig. 2. View: Tantillo (n.d.)
Fig. 3. Face: Tantillo (2005)