340. Dedication to Messallina
- Description:
- Low moulded base (w: 0.66 x h: 0.49 x d: 0.68) of grey limestone; one of a series of five uniform bases; see also 326, 327, 333 , 337. Dated by 337 in 45-46.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Lettering only in part legible.
- 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:34ff., fig. l9; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1948:16. 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"
/>
<del>
Messallinae
</del>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<del>
Cae
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
sa
</supplied>
ris
</del>
<del>
<expan>
</del>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Au
</supplied>
g
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usti
</ex>
1,.2, Erased after damnatio in 48. There is no room on the stone for Messalinae Val. as suggested by Finelli ap. Aurigemma, loc. cit
Translation:
To Messallina wife of Caesar Augustus.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 1092)
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