Description: Long rectangular base (w:
0.43 x h:
0.70 x d:
1.60) of coarse brown limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one end face within a moulded panel (die, w:
0.25 x h:
0.50).
Letters: Late second to third centuries CE capitals: 0.04.
Date: Late second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Severianum, North Portico.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Lucius Pompeius Cerealis Salvianus, of the Roman voting tribe Papiria, flamen (priest). Silia Pompeia, daughter of Lucius, his heiress, had this made at her own expense for an admirable husband.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 602, whence IRT, 2009, 602, whence EDH 059460; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 1108)
Fig. 2. Face: Tantillo (2005)