Description: Rectangular marble
base
(w:
0.53 x h:
0.87 x d:
0.52)
with moulded panels on three faces; front, much damaged.
Text: Inscribed (die, w:
0.34 x h:
0.70).
Letters: Second to third centuries CE capitals: 0.04.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, in the South East Portico of the Curia. Uniform with 632.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Aurellia Sextilla. Quintus Plautius Haterianus erected (scil. this) in accordance with the will of Tiberius Plautius Lupus, his brother, to [his?] wife; with permission of the most splendid city council.
Commentary
Aurellia Sextilla: https://pir.bbaw.de/id/2746
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, 634, whence IRT, 2009, 634, whence EDH 059487; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 938)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XIV.28)
Fig. 3. Face: Tantillo (2005)