Description:
Block of white
stone:
w:
1.03 x h:
0.41 x d:
0.145
Text:
Inscribed on the face, within a moulded panel
(w:
0.975 x h:
0.35)
Letters: 0.045-0.075
Date: CE 201, GODOT, to 205 GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Bu Njem: in the floor of the
Temple of Jupiter Ammon
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
The company of the Third Legion Augusta Pia Vindex Severiana came to build camp Chol on the 9th (scil. day before the) kalends of February (i.e. 24 January) when the consuls were Mucianus and Fabianus, and returned on the seventh (scil. day before the) kalends of January (i.e. 26 December) when the consuls were the Augusti Antoninus for the second time and Geta Caesar.
Commentary
M. Nonius Arrius Mucianus: PIR N 0114, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/9632
L. Annius Fabianus: PIR A 0644, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/1375
Bibliography: Rebuffat, 1973a 122-123, whence AE 1976.698, EDH 012672
