382. Fragmentary dedication to Commodus

Description:
Two fragments from a panel of cream marble (width incomplete, w: 0.19 x h: 0.22 x d: 0.30). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: l. 1, 0.14; l. 2, 0.09. 
Date:
A.D. 175-192 (titulature) 
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) L(ucio)] Aelio A[urelio Commodo Aug(usto)]
[Pio Germ(anico)] Sar(matico) [p]on[tifici maximo ·· ? ··]
[····]AELIOA[···············]
[····]SAR[··]ON[················ ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
ari
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
ucio
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
Aelio
A
<supplied reason="lost" >
urelio
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Commodo
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Pio
<expan>
<abbr>
Germ
</abbr>
<ex>
anico
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
Sar
</abbr>
<ex>
matico
</ex>
</expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
p
</supplied>
on
<supplied reason="lost" >
tifici
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
maximo
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[ To emperor Caesaar Lucius] Aelius A[urelius Commodus Augustus Pius, victor in Germany,] victor in Sarmatia, [chief] priest [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

l. 2. Sarmaticus. From 175.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1672 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1672 Leica)

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