Description: Rectangular base (w:
1.00 x h:
0.585 x d:
0.47, broken at the right side) of grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lines 1-2 (lapidary capitals), 0.075; line 3 (rustic capitals), 0.07.
Date: Second to early third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Theatre, built into one of the late piers of the West dressing-room.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Quintus Cornelius Va[---] curator [of the municipium?]; Marcus Cornelius Amicus set this up to a most dutiful son.
Commentary
M. Cornelius Amicus. Perhaps also in 592.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 594, whence IRT, 2009, 594, whence EDH 059453; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 594 Leica)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XIII.19)
Fig. 3. Face: Tantillo (2004)