Description: Moulded marble
base (w:
0.90 x h:
1.55 x d:
0.90); 543 is cut on the back;
on the right-hand side a jug, on the left lituus, both in low relief.
Text: Inscribed on the front face;
ii is cut in a central panel, defined by moulding, i on the flat fascia above; in ii. there are formal palms at the beginning
and end of lines 1 and 3.
Letters: Fourth century CE capitals; 0.05
Date: Early fourth century CE (lettering, content)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: ,
Forum Severianum,
at the foot of the steps to the temple
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
i: Lepcis, the great (scil. city); Rome loves you.
ii: To the genius of the colony of Lepcis Magna Crescentina
Italian translation
Translation source: Tantillo-Bigi, 2010
Leptis Magna ti ama, o Roma! Al Genio della colonia di Leptis Magna, Crescentina fece (?)
English translation
Translation source: LSA, 2012
Leptis Magna loves you, Roma. Crescentina (set this up) for the Genius of the Colony of Lepcis Magna.
Commentary
For the acclamation see Robert, loc.cit.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 282, whence PHI 189504; Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1953.257, p.203, whence PHI 189505; Degrassi A., 1954 115; IRT, 2009, 282; Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 84, whence LSA, 2012, 2216 (Tantillo and Bigi), EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059418; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 373 Leica)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 27)
Fig. 3. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 332)
Fig. 4. Front view: Tantillo (2006: DSCN2713)
Fig. 5. Front view: Tantillo (n.d.)
Fig. 6. Front view: Tantillo (2006)
Fig. 7. Front face: Tantillo (2005)
Fig. 8. Text i: Tantillo (2004)
Fig. 9. Top: Tantillo (2008)
Fig. 10. Right hand face: Tantillo (2005)
Fig. 11. Left hand face: Tantillo (2005)