381. Dedication to Lucius Verus

Description:
Rectangular base broken at the right-hand side (w: 0.85 x h: 0.48 x d: 0.86) of coarse grey limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.64 x h: 0.32 
Letters:
Irregular capitals with some Rustic forms: l. 1, 0.085; ll.2-3, 0.07. 
Date:
A.D. 161 (titulature) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Reg. III, ins.1, beside the Decumanus maximus, near 308. 
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) 
L(ucio) Aelio Caesaris
Antonini Aug(usti) filio co(n)s(uli) I[I]
Lepticani publice
LAELIOCAESARIS
ANTONINIAVGFILIOCOSI[··]
LEPTICANIPVBLICE
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
ucio
</ex>
</expan>
Aelio
Caesaris
<lb n="2" />
Antonini
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
filio
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
uli
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="2" >
I
<supplied reason="lost" >
I
</supplied>
</num>
<lb n="3" />
Lepticani
publice
</ab>

2, Jan.161; the superscript bar shows that one figure is missing. The inscription must have been cut before the death of Antoninus Pius (7 March 161).

Translation:

To Lucius Aelius son of Caesar Antoninus Augustus, consul for the [second] time; the Lepcitanians publicly.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XIV.13)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XIV.13)

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