Description: Moulded base(w:
0.60 x h:
1.50 x d:
0.60) of brown limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel,
(die, w:
0.31 x h:
0.59);
the surface badly damaged.
Letters: Capitals, third or fourth century CE: 0.03-0.035; last line: 0.05
Date: Third or fourth century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio II,
Hadrianic Baths, in the palestra in front of the main entrance.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[---] to Quintus Marcius [---] Asper [---] to a most dutiful fa[ther---] erected (subject plural) at their own expense.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 725, whence IRT, 2009, 725, whence EDH 059574; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XVI.6)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XVI.5)
Fig. 3. Front view: Tantillo (2008)
Fig. 4. Right face: Tantillo (2008)
Fig. 5. Back and left faces: Tantillo (2008)
Fig. 6. Top: Tantillo (2008)