Description: Rectangular base broken at the right-hand side (w:
0.85 x h:
0.48 x d:
0.86) of coarse grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w:
0.64 x h:
0.32
Letters: Irregular capitals with some Rustic forms: line 1, 0.085; line 2-3, 0.07.
Date: CE 161 (titulature)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Regio III, ins.1, beside the Decumanus maximus, near 308.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
2: Jan.161; the superscript bar shows that one figure is missing. The inscription must have been cut before the death of Antoninus Pius (7 March 161).
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Lucius Aelius son of Caesar Antoninus Augustus, consul for the [second] time; the Lepcitanians publicly.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 381, whence IRT, 2009, 381, whence EDH 059304; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XIV.13)