286. Dedication to Hercules

Description:
Impression of the left-hand side of a lost marble panel (w: 1.87 x h: 0.90). 
Text:
Inscribed within a tabella ansata  
Letters:
Capitals: l.1, 0.10; l.2, 0.11; l. 3, 0.13; ll.4-5, 0.10.  
Date:
A.D. 180-192 (reign, titulature) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Hadrianic Baths, re-used in the late paving of the Caldarium. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
R. Bartoccini, Le Terme di Lepcis (Afrika Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, IV), Bergamo, 1929, 92 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) 
[Imp(eratore) Caesa]re diui M[arci f(ilio) M(arco) Aurelio Commodo Aug(usto)]
[·· c. 8··]m pon[t(ifice) max(imo) trib(unicia) V ·· ? ··]
[Deo Herc]uli genio municipii[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]qu[·· ? ··]
5 [·· c. 8··] municipii [ - - - ]mi[·· ? ··]
[··········]REDIVIM[·······]
[·· c. 8··]MPON[·············· ? ··]
[·········]VLIGENIOMVNICIPII[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]QV[·· ? ··]
5[·· c. 8··]MVNICIPII[ - - - ]MI[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratore
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Caesa
</supplied>
re
diui
M
<supplied reason="lost" >
arci
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilio
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arco
</ex>
</expan>
Aurelio
Commodo
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="8" unit="character" precision="circa" />
m
<expan>
<abbr>
pon
<supplied reason="lost" >
t
</supplied>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<ex>
ifice
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
imo
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
unicia
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="5" >
V
</num>
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Deo
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Herc
</supplied>
uli
genio
municipii
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
qu
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="8" unit="character" precision="circa" />
municipii
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" extentmax="4" />
mi
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

M(arci) Aure[li f(?)(ilio)]"/> , R. BartocciniAn unusual form. The letters which follow the M are no longer legible.

2, Presumably Germ(anico) or Sarm(atico).

2, trib. pot. V. So Bartoccini, i.e. from 10 Dec.179. The letters in square brackets are no longer legible

Translation:

When [the Emperor Caesa]r, son of the deified Marcus, Marcus Aurelius Commodus Augustus, [victor in Germany (or) victor in Sarmatia] was chief priest, holding tribunician power for the fifth (or up to the ninth) time [·· ? ·· to the God He]rcules, genius of the municipality [·· ? ·· ?by decree] of the municipality [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:
none.

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