Description: Rectangular base (w:
0.30 x h:
0.30 x d:
0.28) of compact grey limestone, badly damaged.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die w:
0.20 x h:
0.21, left-hand and lower edges only preserved).
Letters: Rustic capitals: av. 0.03.
Date: Second to early third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[---to] Decimus S[---] centurion of Legion two Traiana [---] which [---] by emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus [---] of the city council [---] to ?his father Gem[---]
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 583, whence IRT, 2009, 583, whence EDH 059444; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XIII.17)