Description:
Column-drum (diam. w:
0.51 x h:
1.16, height incomplete) of
cipollino.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second century CE lapidary capitals; 0.075.
Date: Second century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, in the exedra at the South East angle.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
1: Possibly a deliberate erasure; the upper part ot the drum is mutilated.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[---] Augustus (case unknown) [---] Sentius Proximus, duumvir, augur (priest), erected (scil. this) at his own expense, the shrine having been rebuilt and decorated.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 605, whence IRT, 2009, 605, whence EDH 059462; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.