369. Dedication to Antoninus Pius
- Description:
- Moulded marble base (w: 0.86 x h: 1.63 x d: 0.90); on the left-hand side a jug, and on the right a Medusa head.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the front (die. w: 0.55 x h: 0.62).
- Letters:
- Rustic capitals: 0.075.
- Date:
- A.D. 152 (titulature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in the cella of the Temple of Liber Pater.
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratori
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ari
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
T
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ito
</ex>
Aelio
<lb
n="2"
/>
Hadriano
Antonino
<lb
n="3"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usto
</ex>
Pio
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ifici
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
imo
</ex>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
unicia
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
pot
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
estate
</ex>
<num
value="15"
>
XV
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratori
</ex>
<num
value="2"
>
II
</num>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uli
</ex>
<num
value="4"
>
IIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
atri
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
atriae
</ex>
<lb
n="6"
/>
Lepcitani
publice
Translation:
To Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrian Antoninus Augustus Pius, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the fifteenth time, acclaimed victor twice, consul four times, father of the country; the Lepcitanians publicly.
Commentary:
l. 4. trib. pot. XV - 10 Dec. 151 - 9 Dec. 152.
Photographs:
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