Description: Pentelic white marble
locust-and-acanthus capital.
Text: Inscribed on the underside; i at 90 degrees to ii.
Letters: 0.02-0.11.
Date: Late second - early third century CE (context)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Regio IV,
Forum Severianum:
the forum-porticoes and of the engaged orders in the East Portico and in the tabernae opening off the East portico.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
i.2: ΣΟΦΑΝΟΥ IRT, 1952
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(i) Of Sas[ . . . ]nios. Sophanos. (ii) El[---] of Soph(anos?)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(i) Of Sas[ . . . ]nios. Soph[i]anos. (ii) EL[.] Soph(ianos?)
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 799.l, whence Ward-Perkins, 1951 92.1, PHI i: 189546, ii: 189547, IRT, 2009, 799, EDH 059648; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.,
Images
Fig. 1. Drawing by Ward-Perkins (from JRS 1951, page 92)