320. Dedication to Augustus
- Description:
- Rectangular base (w: 0.785 x h: 0.39 x d: 0.465) of grey limestone, with four sockets on the upper surface.
- Text:
- inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.63 x h: 0.24). Uniform with 328.
- Letters:
- Irregular capitals: 0.045- 0.035
- Date:
- 2 B.C.
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Theatre, in the vaults below the stage.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- 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>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratori
</ex>
Caesari
Diui
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ilio
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usto
</ex>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ifici
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
imo
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uli
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
desig
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
nato
</ex>
<num
value="13"
>
XIII
</num>
<lb
n="3"
/>
tribunicia
po
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
t
</supplied>
estate
<num
value="21"
>
XXI
</num>
<lb
n="4"
/>
Fuluii
Lepc
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
itani
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
c
</supplied>
<unclear
reason=""
>
on
</unclear>
s
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
er
</supplied>
<unclear
reason=""
>
ua
</unclear>
tori
Translation:
To Emperor Caesar Augustus, son of the deified (Caesar), chief priest, designated consul for the thirteenth time, holding tribunician power for the twenty-first; the Fulvii of Lepcis (set this up) to their saviour.
Commentary:
l. 3. trib. pot. XIII - 1 July 3 B.C. - 30 June 2 B.C. Augustus was cos. XIII on 1 Jan. 2 B.C.
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