Description: One of the cipollino
columns of the south side of the Frigidarium of the Hadrianic Baths, about 3.50 above pavement leveline
Text: Roughly incised. The inscription follows a cross, with a spray above.
Letters: Rough lettering: οϲ in ligature
Date: Fourth-seventh centuries CE (content)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio II,
Hadrianic Baths; South side of the Frigidarium
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
1: Θεοτόκω
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(Cross) Theophor(os)
Commentary
Φ is uncertain; perhaps Θεωδόρ(ου)
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1925a 308; Romanelli, 1925, 120, n. 1; SEG 9.806; IRT, 1952, 832, whence PHI 189665, IRT, 2009, 832, EDH 059683; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR