Description: Rectangular base (w:
0.47 x h:
0.90 x d:
0.485) of
grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w:
0.265 x h:
0.59).
Letters: Irregular capitals: 0.042-0.03.
Date: First to third centuries CE (terminology)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Theatre, in the Temple of the Di Augusti in the portico.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
1: D or P.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To [---] Cornelius Philocalus, father of the Cornelii Cotta and Cornelianus; Flavius Crescens Saloninus set this up with permission of the venerable city council, in accordance with the will of the Cornelii Cotta and Cornelianus.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 638, whence IRT, 2009, 638, whence EDH 059491; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XVII.33)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 721 Leica)