335. Dedication to Drusus

Description:
Rectangular marble base (w: 0.59 x h: 0.07 x d: 0.23). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face 
Letters:
Irregular capitals: av. 0.025. 
Date:
14-23 A.D. (prosopography) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Found in the Forum Vetus, Temple of Rome and Augustus. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum. 
Bibliography:
Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 VIII:29ff.; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1948:11; Relazioni Scavi (weekly reports filed in the Archives of the Superintendency of Antiquities, Tripoli) 30.7.33. 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) 
Druso Caesari
[I]mp(eratoris) Ti(beri) Caesaris A[u]g(usti) f(ilio) diui Aug(usti) ne(poti) Perperna Lepcitanus
DRVSOCAESARI
[··]MPTICAESARISA[··]GFDIVIAVGNEPERPERNALEPCITANVS
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Druso
Caesari
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
I
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
mp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratoris
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Ti
</abbr>
<ex>
beri
</ex>
</expan>
Caesaris
<expan>
<abbr>
A
<supplied reason="lost" >
u
</supplied>
g
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilio
</ex>
</expan>
diui
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
ne
</abbr>
<ex>
poti
</ex>
</expan>
Perperna
Lepcitanus
</ab>

Translation:

To Drusus Caesar, son of emperor Tiberius Caesar Agustus, grandson of deified Augustus; Perperna of Lepcis (set this up).

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XII.13)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XII.13)

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