Description: Rectangular marble
base (w:
0.26 x h:
0.36 x d:
0.26)
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (w:
0.19 x h:
0.28): there is a circular depression on the top.
Letters: Second century capitals with some Rustic forms, line 1-5, 0.034; line 6, 0.018.
Date: 139-161 CE (reign)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
on the sea-shore west of the Temple of Neptune;
found in 1953 by Mr. Duncan Black.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
5: Lib(ertus) or lib(rarius)
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Aurelius Caesar, son of Antoninus Augustus Pius, (scil. set up by) Vitalis, freed home-born slave, ?in charge of claims for ships with capacity for ten thousand measures (scil. of corn).
Commentary
Line 5: Lib(ertus) or lib(rarius).
Line 6: Written A. X. M. with a small O above the M.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1955, S.4, whence AE 1957.231, IRT, 2009, 976, whence EDH 059814
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 53 III 40)