332. Fragmentary building dedication to Tiberius
- Description:
- Eleven blocks of compact grey limestone, the successive courses of a monumental inscription. a) Eight blocks, total length: 7.64. b) Three blocks, total length: 2.67.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving faces.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals. a) Lettering from top of block: l. 1, 0.07-0.22; I. 2, 0.28-0.41; to bottom, 0.48. b) Lettering: from top of block: l. 1 (decapitated) 0.13; l. 2, 0.19-0.31; to bottom, 0.33.
- Date:
- A.D. 31-37 (titulature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Punic Market. Found re-used in the stylobate of the north-eastern colonnade of the surrounding portico and now reconstituted nearby.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Reconstituted near the surrounding portico of the Market.
- 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)
a
Ti(berio) Caesari
diui Aug(usti)
f(ilio) Augusto
d[i]ui Iuli
[nepo]ti Augus[to]
[p]ont(ifici)
max[(imo)
co(n)s(uli)] V
imp(eratori) VIII [tribu]nicia p[otestate] XXX [·· ? ··]
b
imp(eratori) VIII [tribu]nicia p[otestate] XXX [·· ? ··]
a
TICAESARIDIVIAVGFAVGVSTOD[··]VIIVLI[·····]TIAVGVS[···][··]ONTMAX[·······]V
IMPVIII[······]NICIAP[·········]XXX[·· ? ··]
b
IMPVIII[······]NICIAP[·········]XXX[·· ? ··]
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type="textpart"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Ti
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
berio
</ex>
Caesari
diui
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usti
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ilio
</ex>
Augusto
d
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
ui
Iuli
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
nepo
</supplied>
ti
Augus
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
to
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
p
</supplied>
ont
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ifici
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</expan>
<ex>
</supplied>
imo
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uli
</ex>
<num
value="5"
>
V
</num>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratori
</ex>
<num
value="8"
>
VIII
</num>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
tribu
</supplied>
nicia
p
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
otestate
</supplied>
<num
value="30"
>
XXX
</num>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<div
type="textpart"
n="b"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
proco
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ul
</ex>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
patronus
fac
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
iend
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
dedicauit
Translation:
( a.)To Tiberius Caesar Augustus, son of the deified Augustus, grandson of deified Julius, chief priest, consul [for the fifth time], acclaimed victor for the eighth, holding tribunician power for the thirty-seventh, [·· ? ··]
b. [·· ? ··]proconsul[·· ? ··] patron [saw to it·· ? ···· ? ··]
Commentary:
a) l. 1. cos. V - from 1 Jan. 31.
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