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322. Dedication to Augustus

Description:: Lintel (w: 3.17 x h: 0.97 x d: 0.30) of grey limestone.
Text:: Inscribed within a moulded tabella ansata (die, w: 2.315 x h: 0.62); there is a rosette in relief within each ansa and clasped hands in relief in the centre of line 2, between the words patre and Patriae. Two lines of Neo-Punic follow the Latin text (unpublished but identical with the Neo-Punic text of 321, q.v.) . Uniform with 321, 323. The text is identical with that of 323.
Letters:: Lapidary capitals: 0.09-0.065
Date:: A.D. 1-2 (reign, titulature)
Findspot:: Lepcis Magna: Theatre, in situ above the door from the orchestra into the East lateral corridor.
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Theatre, in situ above the door from the orchestra into the East lateral corridor.
Bibliography:: Caputo, Epigraphica (Rivista Italiana di Epigrafia), Milano, vol. I, 1939 II:197 ff, fig.15. 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) Caesare Diui f(ilio) Aug(usto) pont(ifice) max(imo) tr(ibunicia) pot(estate) XXIV
co(n)s(ule) XIII patre patr(iae)
Annobal ornator patriae amator concordiae
5 flamen sufes praef(ectus) sacr(orum) Himilchonis Tapapi f(ilius) Rufus
d(e) s(ua) p(ecunia) fac(iendum) coer(auit) idemq(ue) dedicauit

IMPCAESAREDIVIFAVGPONTMAXTRPOTXXIV
COSXIIIPATREPATR
ANNOBALORNATORPATRIAEAMATORCONCORDIAE
5FLAMENSVFESPRAEFSACRHIMILCHONISTAPAPIFRVFVS
DSPFACCOERIDEMQDEDICAVIT

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<abbr>

Imp

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<ex>

eratore

</ex>

</expan>

Caesare

Diui

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

ilio

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

Aug

</abbr>

<ex>

usto

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

pont

</abbr>

<ex>

ifice

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

max

</abbr>

<ex>

imo

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

ibunicia

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

pot

</abbr>

<ex>

estate

</ex>

</expan>

XXIV

</num>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

ule

</ex>

</expan>

XIII

</num>

patre

<expan>

<abbr>

patr

</abbr>

<ex>

iae

</ex>

</expan>

Annobal

ornator

patriae

amator

concordiae

flamen

sufes

<expan>

<abbr>

praef

</abbr>

<ex>

ectus

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

sacr

</abbr>

<ex>

orum

</ex>

</expan>

Himilchonis

Tapapi

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

ilius

</ex>

</expan>

Rufus

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

ecunia

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

fac

</abbr>

<ex>

iendum

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

coer

</abbr>

<ex>

auit

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

idemq

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

</expan>

dedicauit

</ab>

Translation:

When Emperor Caesar Augustus, son of the deified (Caesar), chief priest, was ()holding tribunician power for the twentyfourth time, consul for the thirteenth, father of the country, Annobal, adorner of his country, lover of concord, flamen (local priest), sufete, in charged of sacred things, son of Himilcho Tapapius Rufus, saw to the construction at his own expense and also dedicated it.