9. Dedication to Jupiter by Africanus
- Description:
- Moulded base of marble (w: 0.75 x h: 1.37 × unknown depth).
- Text:
- Inscribed within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.33 x h: 0.67).
- Letters:
- Second century lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.09; line 2, 0.08.
- Date:
- Second century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Capitolium: found with associated bust.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lent from Sabratha Museum to the Mostra Coloniale at Naples and not yet returned (as of 1952). Not seen.
- Bibliography:
- Bartoccini, Rivista della Tripolitania (Rivista a cura dell'Ufficio di Colonizzazione del Governo della Tripolitania), 2 vols., Roma, 1924-5; a third vol., under the title Libya, published for the Ministero delle Colonie, was issued in 1927 I:284 and fig. 3; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1925:100. 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:
- Previous publications
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
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Ioui
<lb
n="2"
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Africanus
Translation:
To Jupiter; Africanus (gave and dedicated this)
Commentary:
Africanus also appears in 4 line 2.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B 1237)
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