Description:
Upper part of a rectangular marble base (w: 0.55 x h: 0.60 x d: 0.57) with moulded panels on all four sides. Once inscribed on front and back, the inscription on the back erased; on the left side a patera, on the right a jug in relief. 
Text:
Inscribed on the front (die, w: 0.35 x h: 0.24).  
Letters:
Capitals with some Rustic forms: ll. 1-2, 0.06; ll. 3-4, 0.04. 
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Colonnaded Street: in the monumental exedra at the head of the street . 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
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) 
Q(uinto) Furio Cereali
socero Carmini Sa-
turnini qui statuas XVI
[·· ? ··] (sestertios) testa-
5[mento ·· ? ··]
QFVRIOCEREALI
SOCEROCARMINISA
TVRNINIQVISTATVASXVI
[·· ? ··] sestertius TESTA
5[········ ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
uinto
</ex>
</expan>
Furio
Cereali
<lb n="2" />
socero
Carmini
Sa
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
turnini
qui
statuas
<num value="16" >
XVI
</num>
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<am>
<g type="sestertius" > </g>
</am>
</abbr>
<ex>
sestertios
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="5000" > </num>
testa
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
mento
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

To Quintus Furius Cerealis, father-in-law of Carminius Saturninus, who [had] sixteen statues [made at a cost of ?] sesterces by his will [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1625 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1625 Leica)

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