378. Fragmentary dedication to Antoninus Pius

Description:
Upper part of a moulded base (w: 1.12 x h: 0.55 x d: 1.121; height incomplete) of poor-quality grey limestone, with socket for statue above; part of the lower half of the base, uninscribed, was found near-by. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.58 x h: 0.8; height incomplete.) 
Letters:
Lettering 0.065. 
Date:
A.D. 138-161 (reign) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Main Street, beside Reg. III, ins. 1.  
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 Hadr-
[iano Antonino Aug(usto) Pio ---]
IMPCAESTAELIOHADR
[··············---]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
ari
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
T
</abbr>
<ex>
ito
</ex>
</expan>
Aelio
Hadr
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
iano
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Antonino
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
Pio
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
</ab>

Translation:

To emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrian [Antoninus Augustus Pius·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XIV.12)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XIV.12)

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