Description: Rectangular marble
base
(w:
0.50 x h:
0.90 x d:
0.53) with moulded panels
on three faces.
Text: Inscribed on the front (die, w:
0.33 x h:
0.70).
Uniform with 634.
Letters: Capitals with some Rustic forms. line 1-10, 0.04-0.045; last line, 0.03.
Date: Second century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, in the Curia.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Aquila Blaesilla; Quintus Plautius Haterianus erected this to his mother in accordance with the will of Tiberius Plautius Lupus, his brother, with permission of the most splendid city council.
Commentary
Aquilia Blaesilla: https://pir.bbaw.de/id/1809
Q. Plautius Haterianus: PIR P 0465, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/10498
Ti. Plautius Lupus: PIR P 0469, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/10501
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 632, whence IRT, 2009, 632, whence EDH 059485; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Face: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XIV.11)
Fig. 2. Face: Tantillo (2005)