372. Fragmentary building inscription under Antoninus Pius
- Description:
- Part of a panel of cream marble (surviving width, w: 0.86 x h: 0.57 x d: 0.01).
- Text:
- Inscribed within a moulded border.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: ll. 1-3, 0.07; l. 4, 0.055.
- Date:
- A.D. 157 (titulature)
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratore
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
C
</supplied>
aes
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
are
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
T
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ito
</ex>
Aelio
Hadria
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
no
</supplied>
Ant
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
onino
</supplied>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usto
</ex>
Pio
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ifice
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
imo
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
unicia
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
pot
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
estate
</ex>
<num
value="20"
>
XX
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratore
</ex>
<num
value="2"
>
II
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ule
</ex>
<num
value="4"
>
III
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</num>
I
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
atre
</ex>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
atriae
</ex>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
ae
theatri
<unclear
reason=""
>
pe
</unclear>
c
<unclear
reason=""
>
u
</unclear>
nia
pub
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
lica
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
marmoribu
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
s
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[When Emperor] Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrian Antoninus [Augustus Pius] was chief priest, holding tribunician power for the twentieth time, acclaimed victor twice, consul [four times, father of the country], [·· ? ··] of the theatre with public money [·· ? ··] with marbles [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
l. 2. trib. pot. XX -10 Dec. 156 - 9 Dec. 157.
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