Description: Moulded base (w:
0.62 x h:
1.44 x d:
0.60) of brown limestone. 463 is cut on the right hand face.
Text: Inscribed on the face within a moulded panel (die, w:
0.38 x h:
0.85), mutilated at the top and right-hand side.
Letters: Irregular capitals: 0.03-0.04.
Date: CE 238: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: ,
Forum Severianum, South Portico.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To emperor Caesar Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius, Felix, Augustus, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the first time [---]the Lepcitanians publicly.
Bibliography: Ciotti, 1948, 119; IRT, 1952, 454, whence IRT, 2009, 454, whence EDH 059357; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. View: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1534 Leica)
Fig. 2. Face: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 601)
Fig. 3. Face: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 751)
Fig. 4. Front face: Tantillo (2005)
Fig. 5. View: Tantillo (2005)
Fig. 6. Front face and left side: Tantillo (2008)
Fig. 7. Top: Tantillo (2008)