Description: Upper part of a moulded base (w:
0.74 x h:
0.58 x d:
0.74, height incomplete)
of grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Irregular first century CE capitals: 0.025-0.04.
Date: First century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, beside the Temple of Hercules.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
The city council and the people of the Lepcitanians decreed (scil. this) in honour of Caius Phelyssam son of Macer, grandson of Caius Anno on account of the columns and the structure above them and the paving of the forum; Balitho Commodus, son of Macer [---]
Commentary
Line 3. Phelyssam. Also in 338, line 15-23. Aurigemma, loc. cit. p. 42, gives a genealogical tree.
. 5. Forum stratum. Also in 338, line 19-20, and note.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1940c, 40, fig. 23 , whence AE, 1948.18; IRT, 1952, 615, whence IRT, 2009, 615, whence EDH 019716; Discussed Volterra, 1952 , whence AE, 1953.184; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 831)