Description: Two blocks of brownish-grey limestone, much damaged.
a) w:
1.04 x h:
0.50 x d:
0.54, front, back, and upper edge only survive.
b) w:
0.30 x h:
0.20 x d:
0.53, fragmentary.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: First century CE lapidary capitals, 0.13: from top of block, line 1, 0.165-0.255; line 2, 0.275-0.36.
Date: First century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, near Church II; seen by Romanelli.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1925)
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
a.[---holding tribunician power?] for the ninth time, father of the country, consul [---]
b. [---]seven times [---](but the figure may be incomplete) [---]
Bibliography: Romanelli, 1925, 130; IRT, 1952, 484, whence IRT, 2009, 484, whence EDH 059377; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1946 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 46.XII.28)