Description: Moulded marble
base
(w:
1.42 x h:
0.67, depth not measurable).
Text: Inscribed on the upper moulding (a) and on the face (b). There is a roughly scored line beneath the text of b.
Letters: Irregular lettering; a. 0.015; b. 1-5, 0.02-0.035; last line, in much more careful lettering, 0.03.
Date: CE 337-350 (reign)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna ?: presumed to have come from Lepcis together with
310a, 349a,
693 and part of 342.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Now at Virginia Water, Surrey.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(a) Flavius Julius Constans Augustus her saviour; the city of Lepcis Magna (scil. set it up).
(b)[---] Flavius Iulius [---] Augustus [---]
English translation
Translation source: LSA, 2012
To Flavius Iulius Constans, Augustus, her saviour. The city of the Lip . . . (set this up). To the emperor . . . Flavius Iulius Constans . . . emperor . . . her . . .
Commentary
On the antiquities at Virginia Water see Lane (2004)
Not necessarily from Lepcis: see Lane (2012), citing Tantillo
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 469a, whence PHI 189512, IRT, 2009, 469a; described, Chambers, 1955 50, Lane, 2004 87 no.137, Lane, 2012 ; Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 92, whence LSA, 2012, 2223 (Tantillo and Bigi), EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059367; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR