38. Dedication to Caracalla
- Description:
- Two fragments from the upper part of a marble panel (w: 0.66 x h: 0.46 and w: 0.38 x h: 0.29).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: lines 1-2, 0.08; line 3, 0.06; lines 4-5, 0.07.
- Date:
- A.D. 210-211 (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)
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratori
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ari
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
arco
</ex>
<unclear
reason=""
>
A
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ure
</supplied>
lio
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Seuero
</supplied>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
A
</supplied>
ntonino
<expan>
<abbr>
Au
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</abbr>
g
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</expan>
<ex>
</supplied>
usto
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Pi
</supplied>
o
Feli
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ci
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
Parth
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ico
</ex>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ma
</supplied>
ximo
Bryttan
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ic
</supplied>
o
maximo
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Sep
</supplied>
timi
Seueri
Pi
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
filio
</supplied>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
diui
</supplied>
Marci
nepoti
<unclear
reason=""
>
d
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
iui
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Pii
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
<abbr>
pron
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
epoti
</ex>
diui
Hadriani
</supplied>
<lb
n="6"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
abn
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
epoti
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
diui
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Trai
</supplied>
<unclear
reason=""
>
a
</unclear>
ni
Pa
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
rthici
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
adnepoti
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
</ab>
Translation:
To Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius [Severus] Antoninus Augustus [Pius], Felix, greatest [Victor in Parthia], greatest Victor in Britain, [son of Lucius] Septimius Severus Pius, [·· ? ··] grandson of [deified] Marcus, [great grandson of deified Pius, great great grandson of deified Hadrian, great great great grandson of deified], Trajan, Victor in Parthia[·· ? ··]
Commentary:
l. 3. Brittanicus maximus from 210.
Photographs:
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