Description:
Low moulded base (w: 0.66 x h: 0.49 x d: 0.68) of grey limestone; one of a series of five uniform bases; see also 326, 327, 333 , 337. Dated by 337 in 45-46.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Lettering only in part legible. 
Date:
A.D. 45-46 (see 337)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, behind the Temple of Rome and Augustus. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 VIII:34ff., fig. l9; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1948:16. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.  
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
〚Messallinae〛
〚Cae[sa]ris〛 〚[Au]g(usti)〛
〚MESSALLINAE〛
〚CAE[···]RIS〛〚[···]G〛
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<del>
Messallinae
</del>
<lb n="2" />
<del>
Cae
<supplied reason="lost" >
sa
</supplied>
ris
</del>
<del>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Au
</supplied>
g
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
</del>
</ab>

1,.2, Erased after damnatio in 48. There is no room on the stone for Messalinae Val. as suggested by Finelli ap. Aurigemma, loc. cit

Translation:

To Messallina wife of Caesar Augustus.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 1092)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 1092)

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