Description: Long rectangular base (w:
0.51 x h:
0.72 x d:
1.75) of coarse grey-brown limestone, in three pieces.
Later re-used for 469.
Text: Inscribed on the short end within a moulded panel over an erased previous text (die, w:
0.25 x h:
0.48).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.04.
Date: CE 267: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: ,
Forum Severianum, East end.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Emperor Caesar Publius Licinius Gallienus Pius (Publius to Pius erased) Felix Augustus, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the fifteenth time, consul seven times, father of the country, proconsul, the Lepcitanians Septimian and Saloninian (scil. set this up) publicly.
Bibliography: Goodchild, 1949, 31, whence AE 1950.207; IRT, 1952, 457, whence IRT, 2009, 457, whence EDH (Bigi, 2014) 022057; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1554 Leica)
Fig. 2. View, lower part: Tantillo (2005)