Description: Two fragments of a re-used marble
pilaster capital, reversed.
Text: Inscribed on the reverse face.
Letters: Irregular capitals, third or fourth centuries CE: 0.04.a) 0.15 0.11 0.035 , upper edge.b) 0.13 0.09 0.035 , no edges surviving.
Date: Third or fourth centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
a.1: IU LI US HO Written IV.LI.VS. HO.
b.1: S CIR TA Written S.CIR.TA.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(a)[---] Julius Ho[---], excellent man (of equestrian status) [---] (b)[---] (? in or) from Cirta[---]
Commentary
Iulius Ho- : PIR I 0354, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/7544
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 573, whence IRT, 2009, 573, whence EDH 059436; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. From left: Above, IRT 573 a and b; Below: IRT 811.b, IRT 789: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXII.34)