Description: Rectangular base
(w:
0.52 x h:
0.96 x d:
0.52)
of rather coarse grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel
(die, w:
0.28 x h:
0.70).
Letters: Irregular capitals with Rustic forms (probably third century CE): av. 0.03-0.035.
Date: Probably third century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Regio V, insula 6, opposite the South East entrance to the Market.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
11: i.e. denarios octo milia.
13: i.e. denariis mille quinque.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[---] and Flavius Capito, his heirs, set up four statues at a cost of eight thousand denarii, adding one thousand five hundred denarii of their own.
Commentary
Line 8-9. Flauius Capito. Perhaps also in 701.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 700, whence IRT, 2009, 700, whence EDH 059549; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 317)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XI.5)