Description: Rectangular base (w:
0.45 x h:
0.97 x d:
0.45) of coarse brown limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w:
0.32 x h:
0.63).
Letters: Late form of Rustic capitals: 0.05-0.06.
Date: June-August 283 CE: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
7: L Iul IRT, 1952
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Carus, Pius, Felix, unconquered, Augustus, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the second time, consul twice, father of the country, proconsul; Lucius Julius Paulinus, most splendid man (i.e. of senatorial status), proconsul [---]
Italian translation
Translation source: Tantillo-Bigi, 2010
All’imperatore Cesare Marco Aurelio Caro Pio Felice invitto Augusto, pontefice massimo, investito della potestà tribunizia per la seconda volta, console per la seconda volta, padre della patria, proconsole, Lucius Iulius Paulinus, uomo chiarissimo, proconsole . . .
Commentary
Lucius Iulius Paulinus: PLRE I, Paulinus 18; PIR I 0451, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/7661
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 461, whence IRT, 2009, 461; Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 1; EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059361; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR