Above the relief in front is the inscription,--

LARIBVS . AVGVSTIS

CIVS . C. M

MANIVS C. _l. iu_STVS

MAG. VICI ANNI . NONI

It was dedicated to the Lares of Augustus by four officials of a

street nine years after Augustus had restored the street shrines. That

was in 6 B.C. (Dion Cassius, lv. 8); so this altar was erected in A.D.

3.

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