Description: Four similar market-benches of grey limestone, roughly uniform with one another and with
IRT 590ef, IRT 590g,
IRT 590h, IRT 590i, (av. w:
1.90 x h:
0.20 x d:
0.52).
Text: Inscribed on the front edge within a moulded border (die, w:
1.65 x h:
0.05).
Letters: Irregular first century CE capitals: 0.045.
Date: First century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Market.
One of them was found re-used as a step in the main entrance to the Turkish hospital in Homs (Aurigemma, loc. cit.).
Original location: Between the columns of the octagonal limestone building
Last recorded location:
Replaced in position.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Tiberius Claudius Amicus and Marcus Heliodorius Apollonides, aediles, gave the tables at their own expense.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1939, 91; Degrassi N., 1945 11-12; IRT, 1952, 590.a-d, whence IRT, 2009, 590.a-d, whence EDH 059449; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..
