379. Fragmentary dedication to Hadrian or Antoninus Pius
- Description:
- Part of a marble panel, reconstructed from fragments (w: 0.45 x h: 0.45, upper and lower edges only).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Second century A.D. capitals: 0.095.
- Date:
- A.D. 117-161 (reign)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Main Street near the Market.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- Bibliography:
- Relazioni Scavi (weekly reports filed in the Archives of the Superintendency of Antiquities, Tripoli) 16.2.29. 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>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratori
</ex>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ari
</ex>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
o
Hadria
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
no
</supplied>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
m
</supplied>
armoribu
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
s
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ob
honorem
</supplied>
aedilitatis
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[To Emperor Caesar ·· ? ··] Hadrian [·· ? ··] with marbles [·· ? ··on account of the honour] of the aedilate [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
l. 1. Hadrianus. Either Hadrian or Antoninus Pius.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 151)
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