Description: Moulded marble
base (w:
0.86 x h:
1.63 x d:
0.90); on the left-hand side a jug, and on the right a Medusa head.
Text: Inscribed on the front (die. w:
0.55 x h:
0.62).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.075.
Date: CE 152: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, in the cella of the Temple of Liber Pater.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrian Antoninus Augustus Pius, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the fifteenth time, acclaimed victor twice, consul four times, father of the country; the Lepcitanians publicly.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 369, whence IRT, 2009, 369, whence EDH 059293; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVI.27)
Fig. 2. Face: Tantillo (n.d.)
Fig. 3. Left side: Tantillo (2005)