Description: Low moulded base
(w:
0.66 x h:
0.49 x d:
0.68) of grey limestone; one of a series of five uniform bases;
see also 326, 327, 333 , 337.
Dated by 337 in 45-46.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lettering only in part legible.
Date: CE 45-46 (see 337)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, behind the Temple of Rome and Augustus.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Messallina wife of Caesar Augustus.
Commentary
Erased after damnatio in 48 CE.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1940c, 34ff., fig. l9, whence AE 1948.16; IRT, 1952, 340, whence IRT, 2009, 340, whence EDH 019710; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 1092)