Description: a) Rectangular base (w:
0.51 x h:
0.94 x d:
0.50) of grey limestone.
b) Fragment of a similar base (surviving measurements, w:
0.52 x h:
0.45).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Late, irregular form of lapidary capitals: 11.1-2, 4-5, 0.055; 1. 3. 0.065: 11. 6-8. 0.065-0.07.
Date: CE 253-255 (titulature)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Gasr esc-Sciaddad, the mausoleum on the right bank of Wadi Lebdah. a) Found in 1914 about 30m. from the mausoleum,
750m. from the Circus. Probably moved in 1914 to Fort Settimio Severo.
b) Found beside a.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1914).
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(a) To Publius Cornelius Licinius Valerianus, most noble Caesar; the Septimian Lepcitanians (scil. set this up) publicly.
(b) To Publius Cornelius [---]
Commentary
a) honours Valerianus: Caesar 253-256; b very probably honoured his brother, Saloninus.
Bibliography: a: Aurigemma, 1930, 82 ff., whence AE 1931.1, EDH 025242 b: Aurigemma, 1930, 83 ff. , EDH 067669 Together, IRT, 1952, 460, whence IRT, 2009, 460; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. A. 429)