75a. Dedication to third century emperor
- Description:
- Impression left by a fragment of a lost marble panel (w: 1.57 x h: 0.20 when excavated), re-used in the late fourth century A.D. paving of the Curia; see also 126.
- Text:
- Originally inscribed on marble. Read by Bartoccini when first excavated; not seen again.
- Letters:
- Capitals: 0.06.
- Date:
- Third century A.D. (style of monument)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Curia, paving
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Now lost.
- Bibliography:
- Bartoccini, 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:
- Previous publications.
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
inuicti
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usti
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ificis
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
imi
</ex>
Germanici
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
maximi
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
unicia
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
pot
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
estate
</ex>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] of [·· ? ··] unconquered Augustus, chief priest, victor in Germany, greatest [victor·· ? ··] holding tribunician power [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
Maximinus is the earliest emperor whose titles would conform; but Gallienus, Claudius Gothicus, Aurelian, Probus, Carus, Carinus and Diocletian are all possible. The style of the monument appears to have been of the third century.
- Photographs:
- none.
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