Description: Two blocks of grey limestone (w:
0.95 x h:
0.50, depth not measurable), with traces of
moulding above.
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: from top of block, 0.33-0.49; to bottom, 0.50.
Date: First to second centuries CE (lettering, titulature)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Byzantine sea-wall; built into the wall, near the Temple of Augustus, and re-exposed in 1948.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
1: There is a long space after IMP. Since the spacing of the other words is uneven, an interval here, with a figure cut upon the next stone, is not impossible; or space may have been left for a figure to be added when the cutter had ascertained the correct number of imperial salutations (see 914). If no figure was intended because the emperor concerned had only received the initial salutations, the subject might be Gaius (March 38-March 39), Trajan (Dec. 97-Dec. 98), Hadrian (Dec. 117-Dec. 118) or Antoninus Pius (Feb. 139-Feb. 140)-lettering and material make a later date improbable: the balance is in favour of a first century emperor, since, in the second century, lists of imperial titles do not normally include imperial salutations until the second has been received.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[---] holding tribunician power for the second time, acclaimed victor (case unknown) [---]
Bibliography: Cagnat and Merlin, 1923 I(d) ; Romanelli, 1925, 132; IRT, 1952, 489, with Reynolds, 1955, 130; from these IRT, 2009, 489, whence EDH 059382; also copied by Cini, whence Paci, 1989 1-2; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.;
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXIV.28)