Description:
block (w:
0.83 x h:
0.42, height incomplete) of grey limestone.
In material, size, and style it appears to be uniform with 517.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a recessed panel (die, w:
0.50).
Letters: Irregular capitals with some Rustic forms: 0.05.
Date: Second to early third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
re-used as a voussoir in the Byzantine Gate,
Original location: Perhaps part of the missing, right-hand balustrade of the Curia
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To [--- Caius Aelius] Rufinus, flamen (priest); Aquilia Blaesilla his mother to a most dutiful son.
Commentary
Aelius Rufinus: https://pir.bbaw.de/id/864
Aquilia Blaesilla: https://pir.bbaw.de/id/1809
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1924, 70; IRT, 1952, 587, whence IRT, 2009, 587, whence EDH 059448; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XV.32)