Description: Mason's marks on white Pentelic marble
lotus-and-acanthus
capitals of the North West portico.
Text: Inscribed on the under surfaces of the capitals.
Letters: 0.05-0.09.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (context)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Colonnaded Street, North West portico. e. and f. found in 1951.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(a) Polyze(?)
(b) Pro( ?)
(c) Sot( ?)
(d) Charmou( ?)
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 800a, whence PHI 189578, 189579, 189580, 189581, 189581, 18982 , IRT, 2009, 800a, whence EDH 059650; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. a: Ward-Perkins, 1951 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 51.XII.39)Fig. 2. b: Ward-Perkins, 1951 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 51.XIV.19)
Fig. 3. c: Ward-Perkins, 1951 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 51.XVI.7)
Fig. 4. d: Ward-Perkins, 1951 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 51.XIV.33)
Fig. 5. e: Ward-Perkins, 1951 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 51.V.9)