337. Dedication to Claudius
- Description:
- Low moulded base (w: 0.70 x h: 0.50 x d: 0.50) of grey limestone, one of a series of five uniform bases; see also 326, 327, 333, 340.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Irregular capitals: ll. 1 and 3, 0.045; l. 2, 0.05; l. 4, 0.035.
- Date:
- A.D. 45-46 (titulature)
- 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:33ff., fig. 18; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1948:15. 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>
Claudio
Caesari
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usto
</ex>
<lb
n="2"
/>
Germanico
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ifici
</ex>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
imo
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
unicia
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
pot
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
estate
</ex>
<num
value="5"
>
V
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratori
</ex>
<num
value="11"
>
XI
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
atri
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
atriae
</ex>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uli
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
desig
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
nato
</ex>
<num
value="4"
>
IIII
</num>
Translation:
To Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the fifth time, acclaimed victor eleven times, father of the country, designated consul for the fourth time.
Commentary:
l. 3. trib. pot. V - 25 Jan. 45 - 24 Jan. 46.
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