Description: Apotropaic street sign
(w:
1.24 x h:
0.59 x d:
0.50):
within a tabella ansata,
a phallic centaur with an enormous nose spearing an eye with a trident;
grouped around the eye, a scorpion, a serpent and a bird.
Text: Inscribed in the upper part of the panel.
Letters: Capitals: 0.010-0.011
Date: First-third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Theatre; found in the rear portico, loose beside street to north.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
mal(us) er(as) or M(arci) Ualer(ii domus) Gasperini, 1988
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(Not usefully translatable.)
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 768, whence IRT, 2009, 768, whence EDH 009596; Gasperini, 1988 , whence AE 1988.1100; Laronde, 2005 181, whence AE 2005.1662; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XII.27)
Fig. 2. Face: Kenrick, 2008