355. Fragmentary dedication to Trajan

Description:
Right- hand side of a marble panel (w: 0.60 x h: 0.83, left part and upper edge missing). 
Text:
Inscribed within a moulded tabella ansata (die, height 0.75) 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: l. 1, 0.10; ll. 2- 5, 0.085; ll. 6-7 0.055.  
Date:
A.D. 102-117 (titulature) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Found in the Forum Vetus, in the Temple of Liber Pater. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum 
Bibliography:
Relazioni Scavi (weekly reports filed in the Archives of the Superintendency of Antiquities, Tripoli) 27.5.34 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) 
[Imp(eratori) Caesari diui Ner]uae f(ilio)
[Neruae Traiano Aug(usto)] Ger(manico)
[Dacic(o) pont(ifici) max(imo) trib(unicia)] pot(estate)
[[ - - - ] imp(eratori) [ - - - ] co(n)s(uli) [ - - - ] p(atri)] p(atriae)
5 [·· ? ··]iae
[·· ? ·· Lepcis M]agn(ae)
[·· ? ·· posue]runt
[········]VAEF
[···············]GER
[···········]POT
[·]P
5[·· ? ··]IAE
[·· ? ···········]AGN
[·· ? ········]RVNT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
Caesari
diui
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Ner
</supplied>
uae
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilio
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Neruae
Traiano
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
Ger
</abbr>
<ex>
manico
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Dacic
</abbr>
<ex>
o
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
ifici
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
imo
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
unicia
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
pot
</abbr>
<ex>
estate
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="4" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<num >
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" extentmax="4" />
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
<num >
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" extentmax="4" />
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
uli
</ex>
</expan>
<num >
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" extentmax="4" />
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atri
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atriae
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
iae
<lb n="6" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Lepcis
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
M
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
agn
</abbr>
<ex>
ae
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="7" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
posue
</supplied>
runt
</ab>

3, Dacico: From 102; the length of the line requires the restoration of this title.

Translation:

[To Emperor Caesar Nerva Trajan Augustus] Germanicus [Dacicus], son of [deified] Nerva, [chief priest, in the ? year of tribunician] power, [acclaimed victor ? times, consul ? times father of the] country [·· ? ··the people of Lepcis] Magna [·· ? ··] set [this up]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XII.14)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XII.14)

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