Description: Rectangular base (w:
0.55 x h:
0.87 x d:
0.55) of coarse grey limestone, with moulded panels on all sides.
Text: Inscribed on one face (die, w:
0.27 x h:
0.66).
Letters: Irregular capitals: av. 0.05.
Date: First to third century CE (nomenclature)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: East Necropolis,
Mausolea east of the city, (Bartoccini MS notes).
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum; formerly in Homs Museum.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To the gods below of Quintus Caecilius Cerialis Physcon; Quintus Caecilius Caecilianus had this made for a most dutiful brother.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 673, whence IRT, 2009, 673, whence EDH 059525; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 275 Lastre)