Description: Lower part of a moulded base
(w:
0.58 x h:
0.75 x d:
0.58), of compact grey limestone, badly weathered.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w:
0.29 x h:
0.42)
Letters: Irregular capitals: line 1, 0.06; line 2, 0.04; line 3, 0.035; remainder, 0.03.
Date: First to third centuries CE (terminology)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: on the sea-shore, west of the
Temple of Neptune.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
2: Stat(ioni) Romanelli, 1925; STAL IRT, 1952
3: Nerianus or Nerianius; there is a smoothed space between the N and the U which may have been left blank owing to a fault in the stone,
or may have been filled by a lost letter.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[---] August- (case and gender unknown) Caius Nerianus Severus and Caius Rustius Pudens [---]
Bibliography: Romanelli, 1925, 134 , whence AE 1926.163; IRT, 1952, 732, whence IRT, 2009, 732, whence EDH 025537; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Face: Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XV.26)
Fig. 2. Face: Tantillo (2003)