Description:
block (w:
0.24 x h:
0.46 x d:
0.41) of rather coarse grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel, (die, w:
0.70 x h:
0.31).
Letters: line 1 (lapidary capitals), 0.085; line 2-4 (irregular capitals), 0.04.
Date: First to second century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Beside an ancient cistern on a road near Lepcis. Seen by Kallenberg in 1732;
probably removed to Tripoli in the 19th century by the British Consul, on the site of whose garden (now the Waddan Hotel) it was re-discovered
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[ Lucius ] Tettius Eutychus [had this made] for himself and for [---]tica his wife; [work overseen by Lucius] Tettius Comus, freedman.
Commentary
L. Tettius Eutychus, L. Tettius Comus: Also in 314
Bibliography: CIL VIII, 1881, 23; IRT, 1952, 746, whence IRT, 2009, 746, whence EDH 059593; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 680 Leica)