Description: Rectangular base
(w:
0.44 x h:
1.04 x d:
0.52)
of compact brown limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die,
w:
0.20 x h:
0.61).
Letters: Capitals with some Rustic forms: line 1-8, av. 0.04; line 9-10, 0.03.
Date: Second century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, in the exedra at the South East angle.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Marcus Licinius Flaccus Iunior; in accordance with the will of Licinius Augustalis, Claudius Claudianus his heir, set (scil. this) up, with permission of the most splendid city-council.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 646, whence IRT, 2009, 646, whence EDH 059499; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XII.16)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 913)
Fig. 3. Face: Tantillo (2006)