Description: Limestone
bench; uniform with IRT 599a and apparently from a series.
Text: Inscribed on the front border (die, w:
0.80 x h:
0.07).
Letters: Irregular capitals: 0.04.
Date: First to third centuries CE (titulature)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio II,
Hadrianic Baths.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot; now lost
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
The aediles gave (scil. this) at their own expense.
Commentary
To this series belongs a group of six benches (whole or fragmentary) inscribed in Neo-Punic (Neo-Punic 12): see on IRT 599a.
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1929 78; IRT, 1952, 599, whence IRT, 2009, 599, whence EDH 067674
Images
None available (2021).