Description: Rectangular base (w:
0.51 x h:
1.01 ) of brown limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w:
0.27 x h:
0.76).
Letters: line 1, 0.065 ; line 2-3, 0.06; line 4, 0.055; line 5-6, 0.045; line 7-10, 0.04;. line 11-12, 0.045.
Date: Second to early third centuries CE (prosopography)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Cardo Maximus.
Byzantine Gate; re-used and built into the upper courses.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Marcus Cornelius Capitolinus, of the Roman voting tribe Papiria, flamen (priest), in accordance with the will of Caius Aelius Rufinus his son-in-law, Tiberius and Quintus Plautius Lupus and (scil. Plautius) Haterianus, brothers of Rufinus, undertook the erection.
Commentary
C. Aelius Rufinus: https://pir.bbaw.de/id/864
Ti. Plautius Lupus: PIR P 0469, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/10501
Q. Plautius Haterianus: PIR P 0465, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/10498
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1924, 70; IRT, 1952, 593, whence IRT, 2009, 593, whence EDH 059452; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 49.XIII.33)