Description: Moulded base (w:
0.60 x h:
1.35 x d:
0.60; height incomplete.) of brown limestone, much damaged.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a recessed panel (die, w:
0.43).
Letters: Fourth century CE capitals: 0.04.
Date: 1 March 293 -1 May 305. (reign)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Severianum, East end.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
1: Left blank IRT, 1952
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[---]to [the most noble] Caesar, [Flavius] Valerius Constan[t---]; the Lepcitanians, devoted to his divine power and majesty, (scil. set this up) publicly.
Italian translation
Translation source: Tantillo-Bigi, 2010
. . . al nobilissimo Cesare, Flavio Valerio Costanzo (?), i Leptitani, devoti al suo nume e alla sua maestà, a spese pubbliche.
English translation
Translation source: LSA, 2012
To the most powerful and most noble Caesar, Flavius Valerius Constantius; the people of Lepcis (Lepcitani), devoted to his divine spirit and majesty, [set this up] with public funds.
Commentary
Most probably Constantius I, Caesar 293-305; less likely, Constantine I, Caesar 306-307.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 466, whence IRT, 2009, 466; Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 2, LSA, 2012, 2148 (Tantillo and Bigi), EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059365; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 229)
Fig. 2. Face, view: Tantillo (2008)
Fig. 3. Face, drawing: Bigi (2009)
Fig. 4. Face, detail: Tantillo (2008)
Fig. 5. Right side: Tantillo (2008)
Fig. 6. Left side and face: Tantillo (2008)
Fig. 7. Top: Tantillo (2008)