Description: Fragment, the lower right-hand corner of a panel
(surviving measurements, w:
0.47 x h:
0.66 x d:
0.03) of cream marble.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Fourth century CE capitals (formed of punched holes): 0.09.
Date: Fourth century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Severianum, in the first taberna to the south of the main entrance to the Basilica.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
1-2: [ . . . m]ax(imo)/[ . . . lib]ertatis IRT, 1952 ; [pontifici m]ax(imo)/[restitutori lib]ertatis Degrassi A., 1954
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
. . .] greatest [ . . . ] of liberty.
English translation
Translation source: LSA, 2012
… the most powerful ... restorer of freedom . . .
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 515, whence Degrassi A., 1954 IRT, 2009, 515; Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 16, LSA, 2012, 2162 (Tantillo and Bigi), EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059408; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXX.5)