Description: Rectangular base
(w:
0.51 x h:
0.77 x d:
0.74,
truncated at top).
Text: Inscribed on one face within a recessed panel (die,
w:
0.33 x h:
0.77;
height incomplete).
Letters: Capitals, with some Rustic forms: 0.04-0.05.
Date: Second century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, in the street at the South angle of the Curia.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
1: Or Pal (atina tribu) .
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Caius Aelius Crescens, of the Roman voting tribe Papiria, in accordance with the will of Aelia Myris; Publius Cornelius Balbus, heir, had this made.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 658, whence IRT, 2009, 658, whence EDH 059510; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 940)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1549 Leica)
Fig. 3. View: Tantillo (2005)