Description:
Block (w:
0.31 x h:
0.50 x d:
0.52) of coarse brown limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face, perhaps part of a monumental inscription.
Letters: 0.09; lunate sigma, epsilon, cursive omega; dot for stop.
Date: Third-fourth centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Wadi Lebdah; Seen by Delaporte in 1806 built into the same late tower as 819 on the level around East of it.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
4: The reading is clear, and the suggestion in CIL that this was a transliteration of benemerenti must be rejected.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Not usefully translatable.
Bibliography: Delaporte, 1836 15, whence CIG, Vol.III 5363b: CIL VIII suppl.1, 1891. 10998; Méhier de Mathuisieulx, 1906, whence CIL VIII, suppl.4, 1916 22685b; IRT, 1952, 825, whence PHI 189660, IRT, 2009, 825, whence EDH 059676; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XII.24)