Description: Two curved blocks (width, across the chord, w:
0.75 x h:
0.52 x d:
0.42) of grey limestone, presumably part of a niche.
Text: Inscribed on the inner face.
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.05-0.06.
Date: Second to early third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Severianum, East Portico.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Quintus Granius Caelestinus, of senatorial status, quaestor, [---], a most splendid senator and Quintus Granius [---] Nummius Gaetulicus and Tuticius M[---] with the permission [of the city council ---]
Commentary
Q. Granius Caelestinus: PIR G 0209 https://pir.bbaw.de/id/6735; for a probable descendant see Q. Attius Granius Caelestinus, PLRE I, Caelestinus 2.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 532, whence IRT, 2009, 532, whence EDH 059415; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 79)