47. Dedication to Maximinus
- Description:
- Fragment from the right-hand edge of a marble panel (w: 0.12 x h: 0.135 x d: 0.03).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Third century capitals, with traces of red paint: 0.04.
- Date:
- A.D. 236-238 (reign, titulature).
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Antonine Temple.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Sabratha Museum, inv. no. 215.
- 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>
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<lb
n="1"
/>
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reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratoris
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
aris
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ai
</ex>
Iuli
Veri
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Maxi
</supplied>
mini
<lb
n="2"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Pii
Felicis
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usti
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ificis
</ex>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
imi
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
Germ
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
anici
</ex>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
imi
</ex>
Dacici
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
imi
</ex>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
Sarmat
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ici
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
imi
</ex>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="line"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ·· of Emperor Caesar Caius Julius Verus] Maximinus, [Pius, Felix, Augustus, chief priest,] greatest Victor in Germany, [greatest Victor in Dacia], greatest [Victor in Sarmatia·· ? ··]
Commentary:
l. 3. Sarmaticus maximus from 236.
Photographs:
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