Description: Rectangular base
(w:
0.51 x h:
1.08 x d:
0.50)
of compact but friable grey-brown limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a faintly recessed panel.
Letters: Second to third century capitals: line 1, 0.09; line 2, 0.085; line 3, 0.07
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: East Necropolis,
Mausolea east of the city (Bartoccini MS notes).
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum; formerly in Homs Museum.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Cnaeus Vituiasius (Vitulasius ?) Africanus; his heirs (scil. erected this).
Commentary
Vituiasius: The reading is certain but see Vitulasia in 650.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 742, whence IRT, 2009, 752, whence EDH 059599; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVII.25)