Description: Fragments of white marble, all possibly but not certainly from the same panel.
Text: Inscribed within a moulded border.
Letters: Second to third century capitals: line 1, 0.065; line 2, 0.06, remainder, 0.055.a) 0.36 0.35 0.025 , lower edge; b) 0.18
0.15 0.025 , left-hand edge; c) 0.15 0.085 0.025 , lower edge.d) 0.10 0.10 0.025 , upper edge.e) 0.09 0.065 0.025 , no
edges surviving.
Date: CE 162-164 CE (titulature)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio II,
Hadrianic Baths
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
Interpretive
a + b + c
[---]ano[---]
[--- trib(uno) mil(itum) leg(ionis) --- e]t II Adiutr(icis) P(iae) F̣(idelis) [---]
do[nis donato ab imp(eratoribus) Ant]onino et Uero [Aug(ustis) ---]
uex(ill)- a[rgente --- et corona uall]ari et cor(ona) mur(ali) q(uaestori) p[---]
5 act[---] Lepcita[ni ---] ob libe[ralitates ---] de
Diplomatic
a + b + c
[---]ANO[---]
[---..........---.]TIIADIUTRP.[---]
DO[..................]ONINOETUERO[...---]
UEXA[......---............]ARIETCORMURQP[---]
5ACT[---]LEPCITA[..---]OBLIBE[.........---] de
a.+.b.+.c.5: Perhaps praeposito actis senatus.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(a+b+c) [To---]anus [---] military tribune in legion [---] and II Adiutrix Pia Fidelis [---awarded military] honours [by emperors] Antoninus and Verus [Augusti---] a silver banner, [---] a crown for breaching a rampart, a crown for breaching a wall, quaestor [---], the Lepcitanians (scil. set this up) on account of his generosity.
(d. and e.) not usefully translatable.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 552, whence IRT, 2009, 552, whence EDH 059425; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXII.18)
