Description: Upper part of a marble base with moulded panels on all sides
(w:
0.89 x h:
0.82 x d:
0.88); 518 is on the opposite face.
Text: Inscribed on the face which is extremely badly weathered; line 1 is inscribed on the upper moulding, lines 2ff within a moulded
panel (die,w:
0.42 x h:
0.45).
Letters: Fourth century capitals: 0.04-0.05.
Date: Fourth century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, in the Basilica.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(scil. In honour?) of Rom[---]ius. [---]
English translation
Translation source: LSA, 2012
(Statue of) Rom..ius....
Commentary
Possibly to be identified with Romulius Laenatius, PLRE I, Romulus 4.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 736, whence IRT, 2009, 736; Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 34, whence LSA, 2012, 2180 (Tantillo and Bigi), EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059409; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XIV.9)
Fig. 2. View: Tantillo, 2008 (P1060195)
Fig. 3. Face: Tantillo, 2008 (P1060289)
Fig. 4. Face, detail: Tantillo (2005)