Description: Monumental base of grey limestone masonry.
Text: Inscribed on one long side within a moulded tabella ansata (die, w:
0.55 x h:
0.32).
Letters: Lapidary capitals: 0.06.
Date: First century CE (context, lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Decumanus maximus; South West angle of Regio III, insula 8, beside the main street. The lay-out of this insula, probably Julio-Claudian,
conforms to the site of, and is presumably later than, the monument.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Caius Gavius Macer, propraetorian legate for a third year, the Lepcitanians (scil. set this up) publicly.
Commentary
Gavius Macer: RE 15 Gavius 17a, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/6607
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 531, whence Thomasson, 1996 7, IRT, 2009, 531, whence EDH 030946; Laronde, 2005 xxx, whence AE 2005.1662; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 578)
Fig. 2. Face: Tantillo (n.d.)