667. Sculptor's signature
- Description:
- A pair of uniform statue bases of brown limestone. a) die, surviving width w: 0.48 x h: 0.05; on the base a statue of Mithras, now headless. b) die, w: 0.54 x h: 0.07; only the feet of the statue survive.
- Text:
- Each inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Capitals: 0.03.
- Date:
- First to fourth century A.D. (nomenclature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus. a) beside the Baptistry, b) in the Basilica Vetus.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Caputo, Archeologia Classica, 1949, I 205-7, pl. lvi 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)
<div
type="textpart"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Aristius
Antiochus
<expan>
<abbr>
fec
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
it
</ex>
<div
type="textpart"
n="b"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Aristius
Antiochus
fecit
Translation:
(a) Aristius Antiochus had (this) made. (b) Aristius Antiochus had (this) made.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XV.35)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XV.36)
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