326. Dedication to Augustus
- Description:
- Low moulded base (w: 0.70 x h: 0.65 x d: 0.50) of grey limestone inscribed on one face; one of a series of five uniform bases, see also 327, 333, 337, 340. Dated by 337 in 45- 46.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face
- Letters:
- Irregular capitals: 0.05-0.06.
- Date:
- A.D. 45-46 (see 337)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, behind the Temple of Rome and Augustus.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 VIII:31, fig.15; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1948:12. 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>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Diuo
Augusto
</ab>
Translation:
To the deified Augustus.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 1090)
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