24. Dedication to Marcus Aurelius
- Description:
- Two sections of a marble panel (approx. original width × surviving height w: 1.16 x h: 0.73).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: line l, 0.085; line 2, 0.075; line 3, 0.07; lines 4- 6, 0.065; line 8, 0.055.
- Date:
- A.D. 178 (titulature)
- 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)
Anton[ino Aug(usto)] Armeniaco
Medic[o Parth(ico)] max(imo) Germ(anico) Sarm(atico)
[pont(ifici) max(imo) trib(unicia)] [po]test(ate) XXXII imp(eratori) VIIII
5[co(n)s(uli) III p(atri) p(atriae) diui Anto]nini Pii fil(io) diui
[Veri Parth(ici) max(imi) frat]ri diui Hadr(iani) n(epoti) diui
[Traiani pronep(oti) diu]i Ner[uae] abnepo[ti ·· ? ··]
Translation:
To Emperor Caesar, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus [Augustus], victor in Armenia, victor in Media, greatest victor in Parthia, victor in Germany, [chief priest, holding tribunician] power for the thirty second time, acclaimed victor nine times, [consul three times, father of the country, son of deified] Antoninus Pius, brother [of] deified [Verus, greatest victor in Parthia,] grandson of deified Hadrian, [great grandson of] deified [Trajan], great great grandson [of deified] Nerva [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
l. 4. trib. pot. XXXII: 10 Dec. 177 - 9 Dec. 178.
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