328. Dedication to Gaius Caesar
- Description:
- Base of grey limestone (w: 0.77 x h: 0.39 x d: 0.44) formerly moulded top and bottom but later mutilated. The whole inscribed surface is badly abraded. Uniform with 320 and thus dated to 3 B.C..
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face
- Letters:
- Irregular capitals: 0.04.
- Date:
- 3 B.C. (see 320)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, loose in the Temple of Rome and Augustus.
- 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>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
aio
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Cae
</supplied>
s
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
a
</supplied>
ri
Augusti
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ilio
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uli
</ex>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
d
</supplied>
<unclear
reason=""
>
es
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</abbr>
ig
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</expan>
<ex>
</supplied>
nato
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
p
</supplied>
o
<unclear
reason=""
>
n
</unclear>
t
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ifici
</ex>
princi
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
pi
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
iu
</supplied>
uentuti
<unclear
reason=""
>
s
</unclear>
<lb
n="3"
/>
Fuluii
Lepc
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
t
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
a
</supplied>
n
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ono
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ederunt
</ex>
Translation:
To Caius Caesar, son of Augustus, designated consul, pontifex (priest), chief of the youth; the Fulvii of Lepcis gave this as a gift.
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