Description: Two blocks of hard yellowish-grey limestone.
w:
0.52 x h:
0.51 x d:
0.35, and w:
0.44 x h:
0.51 x d:
0.30.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: 0.13. Lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.08; line 2, 0.07.
Date: 42-43 CE (prosopography)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Fourth century wall; probably re-used in the wall.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lying loose beside the West Gate.
2: area co[lumnis? IRT, 1952
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[---]Augustus [chief] priest, holding [tribunician] power [for the ? time---] the area ? with columns [---].
Commentary
A fragment of 343 was associated with this text (as 482.b). The restorations are by Silvestrini (art.cit.).
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 482, whence IRT, 2009, 482; Silvestrini, 1985 279-283, whence AE 1987.989; EDH 004092; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
