Description:
block (w:
1.01 x h:
0.51
0.45) of coarse brown limestone.
There is a rectangular cut-away, 0.52 long, at the lower left corner.
Text: Inscribed on one face, now much weathered.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.09; remainder, 0.06-0.07.
Date: First to second centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, near the sea wall, beside 612.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[---] a colossos with [---] with his own money [---]
Bibliography: Robinson, 1913 189; Romanelli, 1925, 133; IRT, 1952, 770, whence IRT, 2009, 770, whence EDH 059618; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXII.32)