Description: Series of blocks
(lengths varying w:
0.45 x h:
0.52) of grey limestone,
some complete and some broken, from a monumental inscription; all with rectangular beam-sockets at the top back. a.i) 5 blocks,
total length, 4.02.a.ii) 2 blocks, together 1.42.b+g) 1 block, length 1.50.c) 1 block, length 0.50.d) 1 block, length 0.70.
e) 1 block, length 0.79.f) 1 block, length 0.80, probably from the right-hand of the text.h) 1 block, length 0.80. i) 2 blocks,
length 1.05.j) 1 block, length 0.82.
Text: The inscription was cut on the frieze and probably occupied a space of c. 18.74.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: 0.16; from top of block, line 1, 0.06-0.22; to bottom, 0.22-0.45. Letter sizes and spacing are variable,
but on average there are 7 letters per metre, so that 45 letters can reasonably be supplied in a reconstruction of the text;
words are distinguished by ivy leaf stops.
Date: First to second centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Regio IV, , insula 11, beside a building to which they probably belong,
opposite the Severan Basilica.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(Hypothetical reconstruction): To the god Apollo, at a cost of two hundred thousand sestrces bequeathed in the will; ?Junia Parata, daughter of Gaetulus/a (Gaetulicus/a), heiress, [---] and with seventy-two thousand, five hundred sesterces added further from her own funds, ?paved the area
French translation
Translation source: Di Vita-Évrard, 2008
Au dieu Apollon, à partir du legs testamentaire de 200 000 sesterces fait par Caius Iulius Cerealis, Iulia Seuera Gaetulica, sa fille (?) et héritière, ayant acheté le terrain sur ses fonds personnels et ajouté 72 500 sesterces, a fait faire (ce temple).
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 707, with Reynolds, 1955, 132, whence AE 1957.239, IRT, 2009, 707; Di Vita-Évrard, 2008 , whence AE 2008.1618; EDH 059556; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 258 Lastre)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 254 Lastre)
Fig. 3. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 253 Lastre)
Fig. 4. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 257 Lastre)
Fig. 5. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 256 Lastre)
Fig. 6. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 255 Lastre) Fig. 7. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 254 Lastre) Fig. 8. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 253 Lastre) Fig. 9. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 257 Lastre) Fig. 10. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 256 Lastre) Fig. 11. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 255 Lastre)