Description: On the rough edge of a block of Phrygian marble (pavonazzetto)
from which veneer panels have been sawn both horizontally and vertically, at right-angles to the inscribed face
(w:
0.95 x h:
0.08).
.
Text: Roughly incised on undressed surfaces.
Letters: (truncated): 0.04. .
Date: 213 CE: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio II,
Hadrianic Baths, in the West Gymnasium.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
When emperor Caesar was consul for the fourth time with Balbinus, with the ?account [---]
Commentary
Ward-Perkins (art cit) comments: If this text has been correctly restored, it is the latest member of the series recorded on Synnadic marble.
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1929, 95 ; IRT, 1952, 794, whence IRT, 2009, 794; EDH 067688; see also Ward-Perkins, 1951 89; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XVII.12)
Fig. 2. Left part: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XVII.13)