WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0765. Title on a sundial

Description: Marble sundial (w: 0.29 x h: 0.33).
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Fourth century capitals: 0.03

Date: Fourth century (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: on the Decumanus Maximus, near Severan arch; found in 1937.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: In the restoration-yard near the Severan Arch (1948).

Interpretive

Calipus

Diplomatic

CALIPUS

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Calipus.

Bibliography: Relazioni di Scavo 12.6.37; IRT, 1952, 765, whence IRT, 2009, 765, whence EDH 059612; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XV.23)