18. Dedication to Antoninus Pius by Sabratha
- Description:
- Fragment from the lower part of a marble panel (w: 0.17 x h: 0.22 x d: 0.025, no edges surviving).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- Second century capitals: lines 3- 4, 0.04; line 5, 0.035; line 6, 0.03.
- Date:
- circa A.D. 143 (titulature)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Office Baths (Reg. V), re-used in the S Caldarium.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Not previously published. 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)
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<abbr>
Imp
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eratori
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reason="lost"
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<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
Caes
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<ex>
</expan>
ari
</ex>
<supplied
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>
diui
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<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Hadriani
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>
filio
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reason="lost"
>
diui
Traiani
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reason="lost"
>
P
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arthic
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reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
nep
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<ex>
</expan>
oti
</ex>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
T
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ito
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Ae
</supplied>
lio
<lb
n="4"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Hadriano
</supplied>
Anton
<supplied
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>
ino
</supplied>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
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<abbr>
Aug
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<ex>
</expan>
usto
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Pio
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
unicia
</ex>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
pot
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<ex>
</expan>
estate
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<num
>
<gap
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extent="1"
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extentmax="3"
/>
II
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
imp
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<ex>
</expan>
eratori
</ex>
<num
value="2"
>
II
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
c
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<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</expan>
<abbr>
o
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<ex>
n
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<abbr>
s
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<ex>
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uli
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<num
>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
extentmax="4"
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</num>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
atri
</ex>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
atriae
</ex>
<lb
n="6"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Sabrathense
</supplied>
s
publi
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ce
</supplied>
Translation:
[To Emperor Caesar, son of deified Hadrian, grandson of deified Trajan, victor] in Parthia, [Titus Ae]lius [Hadrianus] Antoninus [Augustus, Pius, holding tribunician power for the . . . time], acclaimed victor twice, c[onsul . . . times, father of the country]; the people of Sabratha (set this up) publicly.
Commentary:
l. 5. Antoninus Pius was Imp. II c. 143.
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