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50. Dedication to Gallienus and Cornelia Salonina by Sabratha

Description:: Marble panel (w: 1.74 x h: 0.90) broken at the left side.
Text:: Inscribed on one face.
Letters:: Third century capitals: 0.09. Traces of red paint in the lettering.
Date:: A.D. 265-266 (titulature).
Findspot:: Sabratha: Capitolium, found in the vaults; see note on 1.
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Findspot
Bibliography:: Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, Roma (Ministero dell'Africa Italiana), vol. I, 1950 I:52. 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)

Im[p](eratori) Caes(ari) P(ublio) Licinio Gallieno
Pii Felici Aug(usto) d(omino) n(ostro) ponti-
[fici maximo] [t]rib(unicia) pot(estate) XIIII co(n)s(uli)
[VI designa]to VII p(atri) p(atriae) proco(n)s(uli)
5[et Corneli]ae Saloninae Aug(ustae)
[coniugi ·· c. 10··] Gallieni Aug(usti)
[Sabrathe]nses public«a»e

IM[··]CAESPLICINIOGALLIENO
PIIFELICIAVGDNPONTI
[············][··]RIBPOTXIIIICOS
[···········]TOVIIPPPROCOS
5[···········]AESALONINAEAVG
[·········· c. 10··]GALLIENIAVG
[·········]NSESPVBLIC«A»E

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ari

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ublio

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Licinio

Gallieno

Pii

Felici

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Aug

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usto

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omino

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ponti

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rib

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unicia

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pot

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estate

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XIIII

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uli

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designa

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VII

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atri

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atriae

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proco

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uli

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Corneli

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Saloninae

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Aug

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ustae

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coniugi

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Gallieni

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Aug

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usti

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Sabrathe

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public

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2, Pii : sic:

Translation:

To Emperor Caesar Publius Licinius Gallienus, Pius, Felix, Augustus, our lord, [chief] priest, holding tribunician power for the fourteenth time, consul [for the sixth and designated] for the seventh time, father of the country, proconsul, [and Cornelia] Salonina Augusta [wife] of [·· ? ··] Gallienus Augustus; the people of Sabratha (set this up) publicly.

Commentary:

l. 3. trib. pot. XIIII. On the normal reckoning 10 Dec. 265-9 Dec. 266. Gallienus was cos. VII on 1 Jan. 266. But see Alföldi , JRS XXX (1940) 1 ff.