Description: Three blocks of compact grey limestone, possibly from the same inscription.
a) w:
0.77 x h:
0.50 x d:
0.53.
b) and c) Two adjacent blocks: b) w:
0.70 x h:
0.49 x d:
0.51; c) w:
0.84 x h:
0.50 x d:
0.54
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: a) Lapidary capitals: from top of block, line 1, 0.09-0.19; to bottom, 0.50.b) Lapidary capitals 0.11; c) Lapidary capitals:
from top of block, line 1, 0.15-0.26; to bottom, 0.50.
Date: First to second centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: on the sea-shore, west of the
Temple of Neptune.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
a) and c) at the findspot; b) is lost.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(a) [---] the Lepcitanians [---]
(b. and c) To Titus Caesernius [---]
Bibliography: Romanelli, 1925, 134; Cagnat and Merlin, 1923, I (l), block c) only.; IRT, 1952, 616, whence IRT, 2009, 616, whence EDH 059470; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.X.13)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.X.14)