715. Fragment
- Description:
- Left half of a low, rectangular, marble base (surviving width, w: 0.40 x h: 0.23 x d: 0.81) with moulded panels on all four sides; within the left-hand panel, crossed thyrsi; within the back panel, pan-pipes and a cantharos; on the top remains of a circular flange probably part of a column-base, pierced vertically by a hole, diam. 0.40.
- Text:
- Inscribed within the front panel, (die, surviving width, w: 0.33 x h: 0.11).
- Letters:
- Second to third century capitals: 0.04.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, from between the Temples of Rome and Augustus and of Liber Pater (Rel. Scav. 24.9.33
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Now loose near the Baptistry.
- Bibliography:
- Not previously published. 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
aius
</ex>
Iulius
Siluan
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
us
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="11"
unit="character"
precision="circa"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
remoto
ma
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="8"
unit="character"
precision="circa"
/>
Translation:
Caius Julius Silvanus [·· ? ··] with [·· ? ··] removed [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 242 Lastre)
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