Description: Seven fragments, all probably from the same large marble
panel (0.03 thick).
a) w:
0.26 x h:
0.185, no edges surviving.
b) w:
0.195 x h:
0.185, no edges surviving.
c) w:
0.11 x h:
0.25, no edges surviving.
d) w:
0.13 x h:
0.17, no edges surviving.
e) w:
0.12 x h:
0.18, no edges surviving.
f) w:
0.15 x h:
0.265, last line of text.
g) w:
0.19 x h:
0.175, no edges surviving.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.12-0.13.
Date: CE 117-192. (reign)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus;
g. Found behind the Temple of Rome and Augustus.
The exact findspot of the remainder is not recorded.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
( a.)[---](scil. to ) Antoninus [---]
b.[---]holding tribunician [power for the ? time---]
c. [---] acclaimed victor five (or up to nine) times [---]
(d, e, f) not usefully translatable.
g.[---] the Lepcitanians [---]
Commentary
Presumably Commodus; the style of lettering suggests Caracalla, but he was never imp. V.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 384, whence IRT, 2009, 384, whence EDH 059307; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXIII.19)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XII.5)