385. Fragmentary ?dedication to Antoninus Pius or Commodus
- Description:
- Two fragments from the upper part of a marble panel (w: 0.26 x h: 0.15 x d: 0.03 and w: 0.20 x h: 0.11 x d: 0.03).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: approx. 0.18.
- Date:
- Second century A.D. (reign)
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Im
</supplied>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
erator
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
C
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</abbr>
aes
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
cert="low"
>
</expan>
<ex>
</supplied>
ar
</ex>
Ael
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[Em]peror C[aesar Titus (or Lucius)] Aelius [·· ? ··] (case not known)
Commentary:
Either Antoninus Pius or Commodus.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVI.12)
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