Description: Left half of a low, rectangular, marble
base
(surviving width, w:
0.40 x h:
0.23 x d:
0.81) with moulded panels on all four sides;
within the left-hand panel, crossed thyrsi;
within the back panel, pan-pipes and a cantharos;
on the top remains of a circular flange probably part of a column-base, pierced vertically by a hole, diam. 0.40.
Text: Inscribed within the front panel, (die, surviving width, w:
0.33 x h:
0.11).
Letters: Second to third century capitals: 0.04.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, from between the Temples of Rome and Augustus and of Liber Pater.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Now loose near the Baptistry.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Caius Julius Silvanus [---] with [---] removed [---]
Bibliography: Relazioni di Scavo 24.9.33, IRT, 1952, 715, whence IRT, 2009, 715, whence EDH 059564; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 242 Lastre)