Description: Statue
base of white
marble, with a simple moulding above and below:
w:
0.815 x h:
1.17 x d:
0.815.
Text:
Inscribed on the face
Letters: 0.053-0.059; lunate sigma and epsilon
Date: Late third to early fourth century (lettering, prosopography)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Regio V, in the
Serapeion.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot
Italian translation
Translation source: Tantillo-Bigi, 2010
Dulcitius! Leptis dedicò a Sereno questa immagine fatta di bronzo, per ricambiare la (sua) Musa versificatrice
English translation
Translation source: LSA, 2012
Dulcitius. This bronze statue Lepcis set up to Serenus, rewarding his verse-making Muse.
Commentary
Aur. Sempronius Serenus signo Dulcitius: PLRE I, Serenus 3
Bibliography: Pugliese-Carratelli, 2003 13, 275, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique 2004.459, AE 2003.1916, SEG 53.1165, whence PHI 323910; Tantillo, 2006 410-412, whence SEG 57.1004; Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 53, whence LSA, 2012, 2199 (Tantillo and Bigi), EDH (Bigi, 2014) 067617
Images
Fig. 1. Face: Tantillo (2003)