Description: Moulded marble
base (w:
0.65 x h:
1.45 x d:
0.65).
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w:
0.24 x h:
0.57); lines 11 and 12 are cut below the panel.
Letters: Fourth century CE capitals: 0.03-0.04.
Date: CE 383-408 (reign)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Severianum, South Portico.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To one who is a peace-making consul throughout the world, our lord Flavius Arcadius Pius Felix victor and triumphator, always Augustus; the Lepcitanians, devoted to his divine power and majesty, (scil. set this up).
Italian translation
Translation source: Tantillo-Bigi, 2010
Al console pacifico dell’intero orbe, nostro signore Flavio Arcadio Pio Felice, vincitore e trionfatore, per sempre Augusto, i Leptitani, devoti al suo nume e alla sua maestà
English translation
Translation source: LSA, 2012
To the consul who brings peace in the whole world, our lord Flavius Arcadius, pious, fortunate, victorious and triumphant, forever Augustus. The people of Lepcis (Lepcitani), devoted to his divine spirit and majesty, [set this up].
Commentary
IRT 478 and 479 are apparently a pair, set up in a year when Arcadius and Honorius were consuls: 394, 396 or 402 CE. (Tantillo)
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 478, whence IRT, 2009, 478; Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 14, LSA, 2012, 2160 (Tantillo and Bigi), EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059372; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 584)
Fig. 2. View: Tantillo (2008)
Fig. 3. Face: Tantillo (n.d.)
Fig. 4. Face and left side: Tantillo (2008)
Fig. 5. Face and right side: Tantillo (n.d.)
Fig. 6. Top: Tantillo (2008)