Description:
Stele (w:
0.44 x h:
1.85 x d:
0.13) of hard grey limestone of marble-like quality. Uniform with 918.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die,
0.34
1.79). Uniform with 918
Letters: Third century lapidary capitals: 0.08.
Date: 201-238 CE (context)
Findspot:
Bu Njem:
Fort, in the Baths
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
2: Erased after the damnatio of the legion in 238.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Centurion of legion III Augusta (erased) saw to the making (scil. of this).
Commentary
No doubt to be identified with Q. Avidius Quintianus, dedicator of 918.
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1928a, 54 ff., with fig., whence AE, 1929.7a; IRT, 1952, 919, whence IRT, 2009, 919; Adams, 1999 , whence AE 1999.1760; EDH 059759; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXIX.36)