Description: Two blocks of grey limestone, probably from the same inscription:
a) w:
0.97 x h:
0.47 x d:
0.51,
the upper surface of block 3 of 346, for which it was re-used.
b) w:
0.62 x h:
0.28 x d:
0.35, broken at sides and bottom.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: from top of block, 0.20 0.34 ; to bottom of block, 0.47.
Date: First to second century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Regio V. a) found in the street between insula 4-5 and ins 6.
b) found in the street between insula 4-5 and ins 6, near 346.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[---] Cnaeus Calpurnius (case unknown but presented as genitive) [---] from public money [---]
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 625, whence IRT, 2009, 625, whence EDH 059478; see also Di Vita-Évrard, 1990 , whence AE 1991.1618; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XI.18)