Description:
Marble
panel
(w:
0.505 x h:
0.50).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Mannered capitals with some Rustic forms: 0.03.Not earlier than second century CE See contra, previous publications; but material
and lettering are decisive.
Date: Not earlier than second century CE (lettering, marble)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Findspot unrecorded. Formerly in Homs Museum
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Narcissus, freedman of Augustus, architect; Aquila Hedone had this made for a very good husband.
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1924, 70; Aurigemma, 1930, 88, fig. 6, whence AE, 1931.3; Caputo-Levi della Vida, 1933 102ff., fig. 9, whence AE, 1938, page 7; IRT, 1952, 656, whence IRT, 2009, 656, whence EDH 025248; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
