329. Dedication to Tiberius
- Description:
- Rectangular base (w: 0.61 x h: 0.17 x d: 0.53) of grey limestone, inscribed on one face; uniform with 325.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Irregular capitals: 0.04-0.045.
- Date:
- Perhaps A.D. 14 (titulature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Chalcidicum, in front of the central shrine.
- 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
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
u
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
sti
</abbr>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ilio
</ex>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usto
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
atri
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
atriae
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ifici
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
imo
</ex>
Translation:
To Emperor Caesar Augustus, son of Augustus, father of the country, chief priest (at Rome).
Commentary:
l. 1. See also ILS 151. Tiberius never accepted the praenomen Imperator or the title pater patriae. The inscription was perhaps cut immediately after the death of Augustus, before his deification and before the proper titles of the new emperor were known.
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