Description: Pentelic white marble
locust-and-acanthus capital.
Text: Inscribed on the underside.
Letters: 0.02-0.11.
Date: Late second - early third century CE (context)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
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
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Soph(?anos)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Soph(ianos)
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 799.n, whence Ward-Perkins, 1951 93.5, 94, PHI 189549, IRT, 2009, 799, EDH 059648; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.,
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1951 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 51.VII.38)
Fig. 2. Drawing by Ward-Perkins (from JRS 1951, page 93)