Description:
Marble
balustrade block (w:
0.99 x h:
0.36 x d:
0.30) with moulding above, much weathered.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second to third centuries CE capitals (drilled): 0.075.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, loose in Church II.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
1: The underlined letters at the end of line 1 and the beginning of line 2 were read by Bartoccini in 1931 but are no longer visible.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[---] adorner at the same time to ( or of) ?mankind [---] to [---]gina Felyssan his most obedient wife.
Commentary
Line 2. Felyssam. For this name cf. Phelyssam in 615, line 3 and Aurigemma, 1940c, 40 .
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1931, 39; IRT, 1952, 698, whence IRT, 2009, 698, whence EDH 067679; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVI.23)