Description: The reverse face of 426. Marble
block
(w:
0.51 x h:
0.34 x d:
1.42).
Text: Inscribed on the two end faces.
Letters: Late form of Rustic capitals: 0.09; dot for stop.
Date: Third quarter of the third century CE (lettering, context)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: ,
Forum Severianum, at the angle of the East and South Porticoes.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
1: Uffil Amilitis IRT, 1952
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[---] ?Amilitis, son of Clement, eminent man (of equestrian status) citizen and patron, the most splendid city council of the Lepcimagnensians (scil. set this up)
Italian translation
Translation source: Tantillo-Bigi, 2010
A . . . figlio di Clemente uomo egregio, che ha ricoperto le milizie equestri, al concittadino e patrono, l’ordine splendidissimo di Leptis Magna.
English translation
Translation source: LSA, 2012
To ... , son of Clemens of egregius rank, equestrian officer, citizen, patron. The most splendid council (ordo) of Lepcis Magna [set this up].
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 591, whence IRT, 2009, 591; Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 49, whence LSA, 2012, 2195 (Tantillo and Bigi), EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059333; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Face: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 228)
Fig. 2. Face: Tantillo (2004)
Fig. 3. View of left side and 426: Tantillo (2003)