Description: Marble
base (w:
0.92 x h:
1.52 x d:
0.95), with moulded panels originally on all four sides, when 630 was inscribed on what is now the right face,
uniform with 628, 629. The
face to the right of that was cut away when 568 was inscribed on the left face, which became the front.
Text: Inscribed on the front face within a moulded panel (die,
w:
0.35 x h:
0.58).
A part of the text has been deliberately erased, presumably when 568
was inscribed on the left-hand face and the base was re-centered.
Letters: Second century CE capitals: 0.05.
Date: Second century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Punic Market, in the entrance from the Main Street.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Marcus Aemilius Rufinus, of the Roman voting tribe Papiria, son of Caius Aemilius Rufinus; Aemilia Victrix his mother, set this up at her own expense to a most dutiful son, with the permission (text erased to here) of the most splendid city council.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 630, whence IRT, 2009, 630, whence EDH 059483; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
