Description: Two block of grey limestone
(w:
1.34 x h:
0.52 x d:
0.20 - the depth measurement is approximate).
Text: Inscribed within a tabella ansata (die, surviving width w:
0.91 x h:
0.39). Apparently identical to IRT 516.a
Letters: Lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.105; line 2, 0.085; line 3, 0.08.
Date: After CE 79 (titulature)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Harbour area, on theEast Mole,
together with much re-used material from other sites; re-used as a threshold (Bartoccini MS notes).
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
a.1: Probably Messalla.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Marcus Annius Messal[---] adlected into the Senate by deified [Claudius? ---] by deified Vespasian, legate of Africa [---]
Commentary
M. Annius Messalla: RE 14 Annius 66b, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/1409
Line 2: deified: Claudius or Vespasian.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 516.b, whence IRT, 2009, 516b, whence Thomasson, 1996 19, whence EDH 067670; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.IX.7)