373. Dedication to Antoninus Pius
- Description:
- Part of a marble panel (w: 1.385 x h: 0.53 x d: 0.027, top and bottom edges only survive).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: ll. 1-2, 0.16, l. 3, 0.11.
- Date:
- After A.D. 140 (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>
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<lb
n="1"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratori
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ari
</ex>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
T
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ito
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Aeli
</supplied>
o
Hadriano
<lb
n="2"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Antonino
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Au
</supplied>
g
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usto
</ex>
Pio
<expan>
<abbr>
ponti
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</abbr>
f
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</expan>
<ex>
</supplied>
ici
</ex>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<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
>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
extentmax="4"
/>
</num>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uli
</ex>
<num
>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
/>
III
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
atri
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
atriae
</ex>
L
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
epcit
</supplied>
ani
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
publ
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ice
</ex>
Translation:
[To emperor Caesar Titus Aeli]us Hadrian [Antoninus] Augustus Pius, [chief] priest, [holding tribunician power for the ? time, consul for] three (? four) times, father of the country, the Lepcitanians [publicly]
Commentary:
l. 3. Cos. III from 1 Jan. 140.
Photographs:
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