Description: Broken block (w:
1.35 x h:
0.51 x d:
0.35) of
grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die,
w:
1.18 x h:
0.35).
Letters: Rustic capitals: line 1, 0.08-0.09; line 2-3, 0.06-0.07.
Date: Second to third century CE
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: found on the East bank of the
Wadi Lebdah,
together with a large number of architectural
and other fragments, apparently collected there for use in a tower of the fourth century wall.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Lucius Avillius Marsus, son of Caius Avillius Castus, of the Roman voting tribe Quirina; with the whole city calling for it the city council decreed a two-horse chariot; his father, satisfied with the honour, erected it at his own expense to a most dutiful son.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 633, whence IRT, 2009, 633, whence EDH 059486; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1544 Leica)