380. Dedication to Faustina
- Description:
- Elaborate marble console (w: 0.71 x h: 0.43 x d: 1.49, projection 0.60); the left-hand margin and left side appear to have been burned.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the front upper border.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: 0.05.
- Date:
- After 161 A.D (deification of Faustina)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in the Temple of Liber Pater.
- 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"
/>
<unclear
reason=""
>
Di
</unclear>
uae
Faustinae
<expan>
<abbr>
Lep
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
citani
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ublice
</ex>
Translation:
To deified Faustina, the Lepcitanians publicly.
Commentary:
l. 1. Diva Faustina. PIR(2) A 715 or 716.
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