Description: Moulded base
(w:
0.69 x h:
1.19 x d:
0.70) of coarse pitted grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded border (die, w:
0.31 x h:
0.67) traces of burning.
Letters: Rustic capitals, probably third century CE: 0.055-0.07.
Date: Third century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Decumanus maximus; Regio I, beside the main road, immediately West of the Severan Arch.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
3: A This letter may be a first attempt at the H of Haterianus abandoned owing to the excessive irregularity of the stone.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Lucius Silius Amicus A(?ulus) Haterianus, of senatorial status, curator, patron; the people of Oea (scil. set this up) publicly.
Commentary
L. Silius Amicus Haterianus: https://pir.bbaw.de/id/12479.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 542, whence IRT, 2009, 542, whence EDH 059417; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVII.29)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 840)
Fig. 3. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 915)
Fig. 4. View: Tantillo (2004)