46. Dedication to Maximinus
- Description:
- Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.20 x h: 0.13).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Third century capitals: 0.045.
- Date:
- A.D. 236 (titulature).
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: The street which leads from the Byzantine Gate to the Forum, ("Via della Ninfa ", MS note on a tracing in the Superintendency Archives)
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Sabratha Museum.
- 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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C
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aio
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Iulio
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proco
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III
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Translation:
[To the Emperor Caesar Caius Julius Verus Maximinus, Pius, Felix, Augustus, chief priest, greatest] Victor in Germany, greatest Victor in Dacia, [greatest Victor in Sarmatia, holding tribunician] power for the second time, consul, [acclaimed victor ? times, proconsul, father of the country[·· ? ··]III[·· ? ··]
Commentary:
l. 3. trib. pot. II. 10 Dec. 235 - 9 Dec. 236.
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