377. Fragmentary dedication to Antoninus Pius

Description:
Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.35 x h: 0.31 x d: 0.02, top and bottom edges survive).  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Second century A.D. capitals . 0.115.  
Date:
A.D. 138-161 (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(eratori) Caes(ari)] T(ito) Aelio [Hadriano]
[Anto]nino [Aug(usto) Pio]
[····]TAELIO[·········]
[·····]NINO[····]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
ari
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
T
</abbr>
<ex>
ito
</ex>
</expan>
Aelio
<supplied reason="lost" >
Hadriano
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Anto
</supplied>
nino
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
Pio
</supplied>
</ab>

Translation:

[To emperor Caesar] Titus Aelius [Hadrianus] Antoninus [Augustus Pius]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1671 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1671 Leica)

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