363. Dedication to Hadrian
- Description:
- Four blocks (lengths, a) and b) together 2.00; c) 1.07; d) 0.62; each × w: x h: 0.50 x d: 0.54) of grey limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: 0.09
- Date:
- A.D. 128-138 (titulature, reign)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Regio IV, ins. 1. From a monumental inscription in the building on the West corner
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- opposite the Chalcidicum.
- Bibliography:
- A. Degrassi, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, Roma (Ministero dell'Africa Italiana), vol. I, 1950, III; Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VIII:22670(blocks c) and d) only). This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952; including revisions from J. M. Reynolds, 'Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania: A Supplement', Proceedings of the British School at Rome 23 (1955), 124-147
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratori
</ex>
Caesari
diui
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Trai
</supplied>
ani
Parthici
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ilio
</ex>
diui
Ner
<unclear
reason=""
>
u
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ae
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
nep
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
oti
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Traia
</supplied>
no
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Hadria
</supplied>
no
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usto
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ifici
</ex>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
imo
</ex>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
unicia
</ex>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
pot
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
estate
</ex>
<num
>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
extentmax="2"
/>
II
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uli
</ex>
<num
value="3"
>
III
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
atri
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
atriae
</ex>
A
<unclear
reason=""
>
em
</unclear>
ilia
Iou
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ina
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
/>
suo
et
<unclear
reason=""
>
p
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="9"
unit="character"
precision="circa"
/>
2, Perhaps in suo et pecunia sua, see 314, ll. 1- 2.
2, Aemilia Iou[ina nomine] suo et p[atris·· ? ··] or P[·· ? ··]., Degrassi
Translation:
[To emperor Caesar Traj]an son of [deified Traj]an victor in Parthia, [grandson] of deified Nerva, [holding tribunician power] for the [·· ? ··] time, consul three times, father of the country; Aemilia Iou[ina ?on] her own (?land) and [with her own money·· ? ··]
Commentary:
l. 2. pater patriae. From 128.
Photographs:
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