Description: Moulded base (w:
0.71 x h:
0.98 x d:
0.74) of compact grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Irregular capitals ; line 1, 0.08; line 2, 0.06; line 3, 0.075; remainder, 0.055.
Date: Probably first century CE (titulature)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Punic Market, in the South West portico.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Caius Marcius Dento, flamen (priest) of Augustus, sufete, perpetual flamen (priest) set up at his own expense the statue decreed to him publicly on account of his merits.
Commentary
Line 3, sufes: i.e. before the grant of colonial status by Trajan, see 412. The mannerisms of the lettering would otherwise suggest a rather later date.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 600, whence IRT, 2009, 600; Guey, 1951 197, whence AE 1952.105; EDH 019016; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 327)