Description:
block (w:
0.87 x h:
0.31 x d:
0.48) of grey limestone from the left part of a monumental inscription.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Second century lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.125; line 2, 0.11.
Date: Second century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio II,
Hadrianic Baths, found built into a late wall blocking the West entrance to the Palaestra.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Loose near the West entrance to the Palestra.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
he/she/they dedicated [---] the structure of the Baths [---]
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1929, 93; IRT, 1952, 775, whence IRT, 2009, 775, whence EDH 059623; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1628 Leica)
Fig. 2. Face: Tantillo (2005)