20. Dedication to deified Faustina

Description:
The upper part of a marble panel (w: 0.70 x h: 0.72).  
Text:
Inscribed on the face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.085; line 2, 0.08; lines 3-4, 0.075; line 5, 0.07.  
Date:
c. A.D. 141 (deification of Faustina)  
Findspot:
Sabratha: Capitolium, found in the vaults; see note on 1. 
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) 
Diuae Faustinae
Imp(eratoris) Caesaris
T(iti) Aeli Hadriani
Antonini Aug(usti)
5Pii
DIVAEFAVSTINAE
IMPCAESARIS
TAELIHADRIANI
ANTONINIAVG
5PII
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Diuae
Faustinae
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratoris
</ex>
</expan>
Caesaris
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
T
</abbr>
<ex>
iti
</ex>
</expan>
Aeli
Hadriani
<lb n="4" />
Antonini
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="5" />
Pii
</ab>

Translation:

To deified Faustina, wife of Emperor Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius

Commentary:

Faustina was deified in 141.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 787 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 787 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 219)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 219)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 219)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 219)

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