333. Dedication to Tiberius
- Description:
- Low moulded base (w: 0.70 x h: 0.45 x d: 0.50) of grey limestone. One of a series of five uniform bases; see also 326, 327, 337, 340. Dated by 337 in 45-46.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Irregular capitals: 0.05.
- 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:32ff., fig. 17; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1948:14 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>
Ti
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
berio
</ex>
Caesari
diui
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usti
</ex>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ilio
</ex>
Augusto
Translation:
To Tiberius Caesar Augustus, son of deified Augustus.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
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