Description: Three blocks of grey limestone from a trilingual monumental inscription. The Neo-Punic text (Neo-Punic 11) is very uncertain.
Block a), w:
0.95 x h:
0.36; block b), w:
0.67 x h:
0.30 x d:
0.41; block c), transcribed by Romanelli, is no longer visible.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Latin text, lapidary capitals, 0.05; Greek text, 0.05.
Date: Unknown
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Ras el-Hammam, 4 km South East of Lepcis, found used in the late fort.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Block a) is still in position by the main entrance; block b) is now in
Lepcis Museum; c) no longer visible.
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
a. Caecilius Diodorus [---] of Caesar the shrine [---].
Caecilius Diodorus at the same time [---] at his own expense vowed [---]
b. [---] wall above [---] holding tribunician power [---
---] alone (nominative) the temple (accusative)[---] emperor (case unknown)[---]
c. [---] greatest (masculine or neuter, dative singular)[---]
[---]and the foretemple (nominative or accusative)[---]
Translation by: Caroline Barron
c.. . . Caesar, the son of god . . . Augustus . . .
Discussion: for the Neo-Punic text see Jongeling (2008), Labdah N8.
Bibliography: Romanelli, 1925, 170, whence /SEG 9.802, PHI 189513; IRT, 1952, 481, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1953.257, p.203; with the Neo-Punic text Levi Della Vida, 1927 98-99; Levi Della Vida, 1987 16, whence PHI 189514 and Jongeling, 2008 Labdah N8; IRT, 2009, 481, whence EDH 059375; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.;
Fig. 1. Block b: Ward-Perkins, 1946 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 46.XVIII.33)