<rs type="textType">Dedication</rs> of statues to Marcus AureliusJ. M. ReynoldsJ. B. Ward-Perkins

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Republished from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.

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Description of Monument

Marble block (1.180.640.36)

Description of Text

Inscribed on one face.

Description of Letters

Second century capitals: line 1, 0.06: remainder, 0.045.

Date

A.D. 170 (titulature)

Locations

Sabratha: Forum, in front of the Capitolium.

Unknown

Findspot

Bibliography

Bartoccini, I:287; 1925:102.

Text constituted from

Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)

Text Imperatori Caesari diui Antonini filio diui Veri Parthici maximi fratri diui Hadriani nepoti diui Traiani Parthici pronepoti diui Neruae abnepoti Marco Aurelio Antonino Augusto pontifici maximo tribunicia potestate XXIIII imperatori V consuli III patri patriae statuas duas quas Anicia Pudentilla codicillis ex sestertiis XXX nummum poni iussit Manlia Macrina mater et heres adiectis ex sestertiis VIII nummum fecit Caio Manilio Maniliano genero curante
Apparatus

30,000 sesterces.

8,000 sesterces.

Translation

To Emperor Caesar, son of deified Antoninus, brother of deified Verus, the greatest victor in Parthia , grandson of deified Hadrian, great-grandson of deified Trajan the victor in Parthia, great-great-grandson of deified Nerva, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the 24th time, acclaimed victor five times, consul three times, father of the country; the two statues whose erection Anicia Pudentilla ordered in her will at the expenditure of 30,000 sesterces, Manlia Macrina, her mother and heiress, had made at the additional cost of eight thousand sesterces, with Caius Manilius Manilianus, her son-in-law, in charge of the work

Commentary

ll. 5-6. trib. pot. XXIIII: 10 Dec. 169 - 9 Dec.170.

l. 7. Manlia Macrina. Also in 91, ll. 1-3.

Photographs

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 231)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.VI.16)