2. Dedication to Caelestis for health of emperors
- Description:
- Moulded marble base (w: 0.59 x h: 1.04 x d: 0.66) with socket for statue on top.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face (die, w: 0.44 x h: 0.55).
- Letters:
- Second century capitals: 0.03.
- Date:
- A.D. 177-180 (reign).
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Port area
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Sabratha Museum.
- Bibliography:
- Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VIII:22689; Aurigemma, Notiziario archeologico del Ministero delle Colonie, 4 fascicules, Roma, 1915-1927 I:241 ff. and fig.; Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940, VII:134, fig. 2. 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)
[pro] salute Imp(eratorum)
[M(arci) A]ureli Antonini et
M(arci) Aureli Commodo (sic)
5Aug(ustorum) 〚[et Crispinae Aug(ustae)]〛
〚[---]〛
L(ucius) Aemilius Calpurni
anus Muse et Mucia
Pudentilla eius
10ob honorem
L(uci) Aemili Muciani et
Q(uinti) Aemili Augurini
quondam filiorum
piissimorum d(ederunt) d(edicauerunt)
2, IMPP.:
5, AVGG.:
Translation:
To Mistress Caelestis, for the welfare of Emperors [Marcus Aurelius Antoninus and Marcus Aurelius Commodus, Augusti, [[and Crispina Augusta] [·· ? ··]]]; Lucius Aemilius Calpurnianus Muse and his wife, Mucia Pudentilla, gave and dedicated (this) on account of the honours paid to Lucius Aemilius Mucianus and Quintus Aemilius Augurinus, formerly their most dutiful sons.
Commentary:
Commodus' name (l. 4) was erased after his death in 192 but reinserted later.
Commodus was Augustus with his father from 177 to l80.
For the lost line 6 Aurigemma, loc. cit., suggests matris castrorum or matris senatus, titles which are not elsewhere attested for Crispina.
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