Description: Prism-shaped stele
(w:
0.22 x h:
0.63 x d:
0.35) of
grey-brown limestone, broken above and at the
left-hand side.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die,
w:
0.13 x h:
0.37;
width incomplete).
Letters: Late form of Rustic capitals: 0.02-0.035.
Date: Third century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Gasr Geladieh, in the mausoleum south of the city.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
3: n (u) m As cut, the V resembles an I.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Philippus, secretary, shorthand writer, accountant, arithmetician; exhausted by all these (scil. functions), he lived for twenty-seven years without any fault [---], his father had this made for a most dutiful son.
Bibliography: Relazioni di Scavo, 10.1.34; IRT, 1952, 657, whence IRT, 2009, 657, whence EDH 059509; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XV.18)