Description: Rectangular base (w:
0.55 x h:
0.92 x d:
0.60) of coarse grey limestone, with moulded panels on 3 sides.
Text: Inscribed on one face (die, w:
0.30 x h:
0.69).
Letters: Irregular capitals: 0.065.
Date: First to third century CE (nomenclature)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: East Necropolis,
Mausolea east of the city (Bartoccini MS notes).
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To the gods below of Lucius Claudius Perpetuus Probatus. He lived for twenty years.
Bibliography: Delaporte, 1836 17, whence CIL VIII, 1881, 18, and p. 2289; Méhier de Mathuisieulx, 1906 79; IRT, 1952, 680, whence IRT, 2009, 680, whence EDH 059531; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XV.17)