Description: Rectangular base (w:
0.49 x h:
0.85 x d:
0.51)
of compact brown limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die,
w:
0.285 x h:
0.66).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.045-0.035.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Gasr Geladieh (South of Homs) - found nearby.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Caecilius Proculus; the Lucii Silii Plautii Haterianus Blaesilianus and Amicus Haterianus Gavilianus Proximus, heirs by succession, erected this in accordance with the will of Sentia Caeciliana, with permission of the most splendid city council.
Commentary
L. Silius Plautius Haterianus Blaesilianus, PIR P 466, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/12494
L. Silius Plautius Amicus Haterianus Gauilianus Proximus, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/12493.
Bibliography: Relazioni di Scavo, 10.1.34; IRT, 1952, 635, whence IRT, 2009, 635, whence EDH 059488; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 1003)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVII.29)
Fig. 3. Face: Tantillo (2005)