Description: Rectangular base
(w:
0.50 x h:
0.97 x d:
0.50)
of coarse brown limestone. The base was then turned 90 degrees to carve 284 on the right face.
Text: Inscribed within a moulded panel (die,
w:
0.26 x h:
0.82).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.05.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Severianum, South side.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Marcus Junius Caecilianus; Caecilia Regina, his mother, set (scil. this) up to a most dutiful son in accordance with a decree of the city council.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 644, whence IRT, 2009, 644, whence EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059497; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 326)
Fig. 2. Face: Tantillo (2005)