Description: Cylindrical block (diameter
w:
0.38 x h:
0.52)
of brown limestone, the upper part of which is cut away in front to portray
a male bust in high relief, with a deeply incised cross on the chest; below the bust a panel.
Text: Inscribed within a moulded border.
Letters: Irregular capitals: 0.02-0.025.
Date: First-third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
English translation
Translation source: Elmayer, 1997
For the deceased, Icsin Amice twenty, husband of Umylthe
English translation
Translation source: Kerr, 2010
For Mythicsin, 'amigo', the viginturion, erect(ed)? it (?) Mylthe
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 827, whence Elmayer, 1997, 4, IRT, 2009, 827, without transcription, whence EDH 059678; this edition Kerr, 2010, 205 (where see bibliography); for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVIII.25)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 593)
Fig. 3. Sketch from a squeeze (from IRT p. 194)