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334. Dedication to Germanicus

Description:: Seven damaged blocks of grey limestone, with mouldings top and bottom, one of them an angle-block with mouldings continued on the left-hand face also (lengths varying × 0.51); part of a low rectangular base with sockets on the upper face for a statue or for a group of statuary. a) Five blocks, part of a single text. b) Two blocks, apparently from a duplicate text.
Text:: Inscribed on the surviving faces.
Letters:: Lapidary capitals, rather irregular: 0.075-0.09.
Date:: c. A.D. 18-19 (titulature)
Findspot:: Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus.
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Findspot
Bibliography:: Aurigemma, Afr. Ital, VIII (1940) 27 ff., fig. 14; L'Ann Ep. 1948, 10 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)

Germanico Cae[sari Ti(beri)] Aug(usti) f(ilio) pont(ifici) [augur(i)] co(n)s(uli) iter(um) imp(eratori) iter(um) flamini au[gustali]
Lepcit(ani) publice

[·· ? ·· Ca]esari Ṭ[i(beri) Aug(usti) f(ilio) ·· ? ··]

[·· ? ··co(n)]s(uli) iter(um) [·· ? ··]

GERMANICOCAE[········]AVGFPONT[······]COSITERIMPITERFLAMINIAV[········]
LEPCITPVBLICE

[·· ? ·····]ESARI·[··············· ? ··]

[·· ? ·····]SITER[·· ? ··]

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Germanico

Cae

sari

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beri

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Aug

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usti

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ilio

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pont

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ifici

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augur

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uli

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iter

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imp

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eratori

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iter

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flamini

gustali

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Lepcit

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ani

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publice

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esari

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</unclear>

</supplied>

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beri

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Aug

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usti

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</supplied>

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ilio

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uli

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iter

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Translation:

(a. ) To Germanicus Caesar, son of [Tiberius] Augustus, pontifex, [augur], consul for the second time, acclaimed victor twice, flamen (priest) of Augustus, the Lepcitanians publicly. b.: [·· ? ··] Caesar [·· ? ··] consul for the second time [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

co(n)s(ul) iter(um): From 18.

b: apparently from a duplicate text rather than from a companion base in honour of Drusus, who was not cos. iterum until 21, after the death of Germanicus.