Description: Moulded marble
base (w:
1.10 x h:
1.45 x d:
1.11).
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w:
0.64 x h:
0.62).
Letters: Capitals of a form unusual at Lepcis: 0.045-0.035.
Date: 211-217 CE (reign)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Theatre - in situ in the portico behind it.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Interpretive
M(arco) Septimio Aurelio Agrippae
M(arci) Aureli Antonini Pii Felicis Aug(usti) lib(erto)
pantomimo temporis sui primo
Romae adulescentium productorum
5condiscipulo ad Italiae spectacula
a domino nostro Aug(usto) prouecto
decurionalibus ornamentis Uerona
et Uicetia ornato Mediolano in-
ter iuuenes recepto in Africa
10Lepci Mag(na) a domino nostro Aug(usto)
ordinato P(ublius) Albucius Apollonius
Mediolanensis ex Italia amico rari
exempli permissu splendidissimi ord(inis) p(osuit)
Diplomatic
MSEPTIMIOAURELIOAGRIPPAE
MAURELIANTONINIPIIFELICISAUGLIB
PANTOMIMOTEMPORISSUIPRIMO
ROMAEADULESCENTIUMPRODUCTORUM
5CONDISCIPULOADITALIAESPECTACULA
ADOMINONOSTROAUGPROUECTO
DECURIONALIBUSORNAMENTISUERONA
ETUICETIAORNATOMEDIOLANOIN
TERIUUENESRECEPTOINAFRICA
10LEPCIMAGADOMINONOSTROAUG
ORDINATOPALBUCIUSAPOLLONIUS
MEDIOLANENSISEXITALIAAMICORARI
EXEMPLIPERMISSUSPLENDIDISSIMIORDP
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Marcus Septimius Aurelius Agrippa, freedman of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus, foremost pantomime of his
time, a fellow-pupil of the ?educated young men at Rome, promoted by our lord Augustus, decorated with the insigna of a civic
councillor at Verona and Vicetia, at Milan accepted as a member of the youth organization, in Africa, at Lepcis Magna, enrolled
by our lord Augustus as a city councillor; Publius Albucius Apollonius of Milan, from Italy, erected (scil. this) to a friend
of a rare kind, by permission of the most splendid city council.
Bibliography: Caputo, 1949b, 10 ; IRT, 1952, 606, whence IRT, 2009, 606; Guey, 1952 44-60, whence AE 1953.188; EDH 018674; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Face: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 752 Leica)
Fig. 2. View: Tantillo (2006)
Fig. 3. Front: Tantillo, 2008 (P1050962)
Fig. 4. Right side: Tantillo, 2008 (P1050963)
Fig. 5. Left side: Tantillo, 2008 (P1050964)
Fig. 6. Top: Tantillo, 2008 (P1050961)
