Description: Moulded marble
base, later re-used for 529: w:
0.60 x h:
1.50 x d:
0.76.
Text: Inscribed: lines 1-2 on the upper moulding,
line 1, on the upper edge within a tabella ansata, line 2, on the upper cyma moulding between formal sprays; lines 3-4
vertically,1 on th left moulding, 4 on the right; there are formal sprays between the words. The remainder of the text, within
a recessed panel (die, w:
0.53 x h:
0.79) has been completely erased.
c)
Letters: Fourth century CE capitals: 0.035-0.04.
Date: Late third century CE (lettering, context)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: ,
Forum Severianum, East side.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
1-2: D[[ . . .c.6 . . . ]]/[[ . . c.10 . . . ]] IRT, 1952
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(a and b) not usefully translatable. (c) of [---] Presbytus, Gerontius Euphrasius.
English translation
Translation source: LSA, 2012
... ... P... ...thius ... presbeutes Gerontius Euphrasius
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 694, whence IRT, 2009, 694; Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 66, whence LSA, 2012, 2211 (Tantillo and Bigi), EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059414; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 19bis)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 741bis)
Fig. 3. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 85bis)
Fig. 4. View: Tantillo (2003)