Description: Moulded marble
base. On the front face; 610, is on the reverse.
522 is on the right face.
Text: i (erased and then ii, inscribed within a moulded panel (die, w:
0.42 x h:
0.46) .
Letters: i: Second century; ii: Fourth century CE capitals: 0.03-0.05; branches for stops. there are formal sprays at the end of lines
3 and 8.
Date: 379-395 CE (reign)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Severianum,
East Portico.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To the enlarger of the Roman World and preserver of the public affairs, our lord Flavius Theodosius, Pius and Felix, always Augustus; the city council of Lepcis Magna set this up, devoted to his divine power.
Italian translation
Translation source: Tantillo-Bigi, 2010
Al nostro signore Flavio Teodosio, Pio e Felice, per sempre Augusto, che propaga l’orbe romano e custodisce il buon ordine pubblico, l’ordine di Leptis Magna, devoto al suo nume, pose.
English translation
Translation source: LSA, 2012
To the extender of the Roman world and preserver of the state (status publici), our lord Flavius Theodosius, pious and fortunate, forever Augustus. The council (ordo) of Lepcis Magna, devoted to his divine spirit and majesty, set [this] up.
Commentary
Line 6. Augustus. Probably Theodosius I, Augustus 379-395, rather than Theodosius II, 408-450.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 477, whence IRT, 2009, 477; Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 13, LSA, 2012, 2159 (Tantillo and Bigi), EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059411; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 582)
Fig. 2. View: Tantillo (n.d.)
Fig. 3. Face, drawing: Bigi (2009)
Fig. 4. Front face and right face: Tantillo (2008)
Fig. 5. i, remaining traces: Tantillo (2003)