Description: Rough rectangular stele (w:
0.55 x h:
0.78 x d:
0.30) of coarse grey sandstone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a smoothed area (die, 0.34).
Letters: Rough capitals: 0.05.
Date: First to third century CE (titulature)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: East Necropolis,
Mausolea East of the city. Found in 1926 (Bartoccini MS notes).
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To the gods below; Marcus Cornelius Saturninus, soldier of Legion Three Augusta, lived 35 years.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 584, whence IRT, 2009, 584, whence EDH 059445; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XV.34)