367. Dedication to > Ceionius Commodus

Description:
Fragment from the left-hand side of a marble panel (approx. w: 0.18 x h: 0.32). 
Text:
Inscribed within a moulded border. 
Letters:
Slender capitals, of a form unusual at Lepcis: l. 1, 0.07; l. 2, 0.04. 
Date:
A.D. 136-138 (reigns) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
One of the tabernae of the East Portico of the Forum Severianum. 
Bibliography:
Relazioni Scavi (weekly reports filed in the Archives of the Superintendency of Antiquities, Tripoli) 29.10.26 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) 
L(ucio) Aelio C[aesari ·· ? ··]
Aug(usti) f(ilio) [·· ? ··]
LAELIOC[········· ? ··]
AVGF[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
ucio
</ex>
</expan>
Aelio
C
<supplied reason="lost" >
aesari
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilio
</ex>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

1, T(ito) Aelio H[adriano, J. M. Reynolds: the text given in IRT was read from a drawing and is wrong.

Translation:

To Lucius Aelius Caesar, son of Augustus [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

L. Ceionius Commodus, Caesar from 136 to 138.

Photographs:
none.

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