Description: Fragments of a marble
balustrade with egg-and-dart moulding, found dispersed, and now recomposed to give three fragments of text.
a+b) w:
1.70 x h:
0.60
c) w:
0.40 x h:
0.08
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: 0.16.
Date: First to second centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Severianum, beside the Severan Temple.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
c.1: Perhaps [---] [c]onco[rdia] [---]
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
a and b. [---] by his parents [---]
c. (not translatable though possiby from concordia, concord.)
Commentary
The three fragments have been re-examined since 1951. The two fragments a and b should be taken together: the stones do not make an exact juncture, but the graining of the marble shows that they did in fact adjoin.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 815, whence IRT, 2009, 815, whence EDH 059666; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XVI.28)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XVI.29)
Fig. 3. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 481)
Fig. 4. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 480)
Fig. 5. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 479)