Description: A statue base of brown limestone, supporting a statue of Mithras, now headless.
Uniform with IRT 667b
Text: Inscribed on one face: die, surviving width w:
0.48 x h:
0.05
Letters: Capitals: 0.03.
Date: First to fourth century CE (nomenclature)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus,
beside the Baptistry.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Aristius Antiochus had (scil. this) made.
Commentary
Antiochus also in IRT 667b.
Bibliography: Caputo, 1949c, 205-7, pl. lvi; IRT, 1952, 667.a, whence IRT, 2009, 667.a; EDH 059519; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Detail: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XV.35)
Fig. 2. The monument: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XV.36)