Description: Two joining fragments of the upper part of a rectangular marble
base (w:
0.50 x h:
0.33 x d:
0.33; measurements incomplete).
Text: Inscribed on the upper moulding (line 1) and within a moulded panel (die, 0.30).
Letters: Late form of Rustic capitals: 0.05.
Date: Mid third century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: ,
Forum Severianum, East Portico.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
3: SẠẸC̣ [·· ? ··] IRT, 1952
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(scil. In honour) of Calliepus. To Publius Cornelius [---]
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Calliepus! To Publius Cornelius Saecularis [ . . .
Commentary
Publius Cornelius Saecularis: probably PLRE I, Saecularis
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 687, whence IRT, 2009, 687; Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 61, whence EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059538; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
