27. Dedication to Commodus
- Description:
- Impression left by a fragment of a lost marble panel (approx. w: 1.98 x h: 0.83, when excavated). With a moulded border top and bottom, reused in the late fourth century paving at the west end of the North Forum Portico; see also 23, 41, 43, 95.
- Text:
- Originally inscribed on marble. Read by Bartoccini when first excavated; now much deteriorated.
- Letters:
- Capitals: line 1, 0.135; line 2, 0.13; line 3, 0.125; line 4, 0.09.
- Date:
- A.D. 183-184 (titulature)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: The W end of the North Forum Portico
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Bartoccini, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, Roma (Ministero dell'Africa Italiana), vol. I, 1950 I:53. 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)
[Imp(eratori)
Caesari
di]ui
Ma[rci]
Antonini Pii f[ilio
diui Pii
nep(oti)]
[diui Hadriani] [p]ron(epoti) [di]ui Ṭ[rai]ani Par[thic]i m[a]x̣(imi) [abn(epoti) diui Neruae]
[adn(epoti) M(arco) Aurelio Com]modo [Anton]i[n]o Aug(usto) Pio [Sarm]ati[co Germanico max(imo)]
[pont(ifici) max(imo) trib(unicia) pot(estate) [ - - - ]] [im]p(eratori) VI co(n)s(uli) IIII [p(atri) p(atriae) ·· ? ··]
[diui Hadriani] [p]ron(epoti) [di]ui Ṭ[rai]ani Par[thic]i m[a]x̣(imi) [abn(epoti) diui Neruae]
[adn(epoti) M(arco) Aurelio Com]modo [Anton]i[n]o Aug(usto) Pio [Sarm]ati[co Germanico max(imo)]
[pont(ifici) max(imo) trib(unicia) pot(estate) [ - - - ]] [im]p(eratori) VI co(n)s(uli) IIII [p(atri) p(atriae) ·· ? ··]
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Antonini
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diui
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ani
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imi
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M
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arco
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Aurelio
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modo
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max
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imo
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trib
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unicia
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pot
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estate
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atriae
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<note>
The text given is Bartoccini's. The surviving letters were read in 1948 as follows:
</note>
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A
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ntonini
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P
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ii
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filio
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diui
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Tra
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Par
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t
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h
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Antonin
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o
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usto
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im
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p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratori
</ex>
<num
value="6"
>
VI
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uli
</ex>
<num
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>
IIII
</num>
<gap
reason="lost"
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unit="character"
/>
Reconstructed Text
So Bartoccini; but see note above, the more usual form.
l. 4. Commodus was cos. IV from 1 Jan. 183; imp. VI in 183 and imp. VII in 184.
Translation:
[To Emperor Caesar, son of] deified Marcus Antonius Pius, [grandson of deified Pius], great-grandson [of deified Hadrian,great-great-grandson] of deified Trajan, greatest victor in Parthia, [great-great-great-grandson of deified Nerva, Marcus Aurelius] Commodus [Antoninus] Augustus, Pius, [victor in] Sarmatia, [greatest victor in Germany, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the . . . time, acclaimed victor] six times, consul for the fourth time, [father of the country] [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment
- Photographs:
- none.
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