317. Titles for images of Venus and Juno
- Description:
- Two moulded bases of grey limestone. a) Height of base, 1.10. b) Height of base, 0.94.
- Text:
- Each inscribed on one face; a) Measurements: die, w: 0.47 x h: 0.70. b) Measurements: die, w: 0.47 x h: 0.54.
- Letters:
- a) Lettering (of good period): 0.05. b) Unstated.
- Date:
- Unknown
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Along the presumed line of a road from the Circus to the Port. Seen by Aurigemma in 1912, about 100 m. West of the Circus and 30 m. from the sea. A third base of the same type was found near- by, but no inscription was legible on it. Since lost. Not seen.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, 152; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1926:165-6; Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 III:76 ff., fig. 1. 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:
- Previous publications
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Cassian
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a
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siana
Translation:
a. Venus Cassiana b. Juno Cassiana (nominative cases)
Commentary:
No comment.
- Photographs:
- none.
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