Description: White marble (Pentelic) column bases.
Text: Inscribed on the upper surfaces; some on several occasions.
Letters: 0.04-0.14.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (context)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Severianum; bases of 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;
c, h and j were read from casts in the Superintendency.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(a) Agath( ?)
(b) Ap( ?)
(c) Ar[---]ento(s)
(d) Eupra[---]
(e) Euty( ?)
(f) Of Parasios
(g) Of Paras(i.e. ios)
(h) Sei( ?)
(j) Of Sy[---]as
(k) Soter[i-]
(l) Soter[i-]
(m) Phra( ?)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(n) EI
(o) P AI
(p) -OR
(q) CHR
(r) Ale-
(s) Ap-
(t) Eleusinios
(u) T
(v) Philetos
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 801, whence a-m: IRT, 2009, 801, whence EDH 059651, t: 104, a-v: PHI 189584, PHI 189585, PHI 189586, PHI 189587, PHI 189588, PHI 189589, PHI 189590, PHI 189591, PHI 189592, PHI 189593, PHI 189594, PHI 189595, PHI 189596, PHI 189597, PHI 189598, PHI 189599, PHI 189600, PHI 189601, PHI 189602, PHI 189603, PHI 189604, PHI 189605, PHI 189606, PHI 189607, PHI 189608, PHI 189609, PHI 189610, PHI 189611, PHI 189612, PHI 189613, PHI 189614, PHI 189615, ; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. d and k: Drawing by Ward-Perkins (from JRS 1951, page 92)
Fig. 2. f: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXIX.33)
Fig. 3. g: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXXI.6)
Fig. 4. t: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Fig. 5. t: Ward-Perkins, 1951 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 51.XIX.29)