Description: Seven fragments, two adjoining, of a marble
panel.
Text: Inscribed on one face in at least two lines
Letters: Late form of Rustic capitals: line 1 0.15, line 2 0.135.
Date: Late third or early fourth century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
found in the Portico behind the Theatre.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(a and c not usefully translatable.) b. [---to---] Augustus (case unknown.)[---] restorer [of the world?---]d.[---the Lepcitanians] publicly [---]
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
For the Divine Augusti. The Lepcitanians (?)[ . . . ] from public money [ . . . (or) restored from public money [ . . .
Bibliography: Four fragments IRT, 1952, 508, whence IRT, 2009, 508; assembled, with a further three fragments Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 69, whence EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059401; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Fragments assembled, drawing: Bigi (2009)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XVI.11)
Fig. 3. Assembled: Tantillo (2005: DSCN1634)
Fig. 4. Assembled: Tantillo (2005: DSCN1635)
Fig. 5. Fragments: Tantillo (2005: DSCN1636)