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364. ?Building inscription under Hadrian

Description:: Part of a panel of cream marble (w: 0.23 x h: 0.21 x d: 0.25, no edges surviving).
Text:: Inscribed on one face.
Letters:: Lapidary capitals: l. 1, 0.07; ll. 2-3, 0.055.
Date:: A.D. 117-138 (reign)
Findspot:: Lepcis Magna: Theatre.
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Findspot
Bibliography:: Not previously published. 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(erator) Caes(ar) diui Trai]ani Pa[rthici filius diui Neruae nep(os)]
[Traian]us Had[rianus Aug(ustus) pont(ifex) max(imus)]
[trib(unicia)] pot(estate) [·· ? ··]

[··············]ANIPA[··············]
[·······]VSHAD[················]
[·····]POT[·· ? ··]

<ab>

<expan>

<abbr>

Imp

</abbr>

<ex>

erator

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

Caes

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

</expan>

</supplied>

diui

</supplied>

Trai

</supplied>

ani

rthici

</supplied>

filius

diui

Neruae

<expan>

<abbr>

nep

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

</expan>

</supplied>

Traian

</supplied>

Had

rianus

</supplied>

<expan>

<abbr>

Aug

</abbr>

<ex>

ustus

</ex>

</expan>

</supplied>

<expan>

<abbr>

pont

</abbr>

<ex>

ifex

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

max

</abbr>

<ex>

imus

</ex>

</expan>

</supplied>

<expan>

<abbr>

trib

</abbr>

<ex>

unicia

</ex>

</expan>

</supplied>

<expan>

<abbr>

pot

</abbr>

<ex>

estate

</ex>

</expan>

</ab>

Translation:

[Emperor Caesar] Trajan Hadrian [Augustus, son of the deified] Trajan, victor in Parthia, [grandson of] deified Nerva, [chief priest, holding tribunician ] power for the ? time (at least twice)[·· ? ··]