Description: Two blocks
( a) w:
1.87 x h:
0.51 x d:
0.50
and b) w:
0.33 x h:
0.52 x d:
0.49) of grey limestone, probably from the same inscription.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Mannered capitals. a) from top of block, line 1, 0.09-0.30; to bottom, 0.51.b) from top of block, line 1, 0.10-0.30; to bottom,
0.52.
Date: First to third century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
a: Regio III, insula 1, beside the Decumanus maximus;
b) Regio I,
Decumanus maximus, south east of the Severan arch;
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(a) [---] by (or with ) Scipio. (b) he/she/they dedicated [---] (the published text gives a singular.)
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 739, whence IRT, 2009, 739, whence EDH 059586; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1946 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 46.XXI.27)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVI.20)