429. Fragmentary dedication to Caracalla
- Description:
- Part of a polygonal base of marble, broken at either side (surviving width, w: 0.40 x h: 0.32 x d: 0.60).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face, with a moulding above and below. Uniform with 400 and 404.
- Letters:
- Rustic capitals: 0.02-0.025.
- Date:
- A.D. 216 (titulature; from IRT 400).
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Severan Basilica, found built into the steps of the South apse.
- 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"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratori
</ex>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ari
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
arco
</ex>
Aurellio
Antonino
Pio
Felic
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usto
</ex>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Parthico
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ma
</supplied>
ximo
Britannico
maximo
Germ
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
anico
</supplied>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
maximo
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ponti
</supplied>
fici
maximo
tribuniciae
pote
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
statis
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<num
value="19"
>
</supplied>
XVIIII
</num>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
imperatori
<num
value="3"
>
</supplied>
III
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
c
</supplied>
o
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uli
</ex>
<num
value="4"
>
IIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
atri
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
atriae
</ex>
Lepcitani
Septimia
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ni
</supplied>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
pro
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
cont
</supplied>
inua
indulgentia
eius
Translation:
[To emperor Caesar] Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix [Augustus], greatest [victor in Parthia,] greatest victor in Britannia, greatest victor in Germany, chief priest, holding tribunician power [for the nineteenth time, acclaimed victor three times,] consul four times, father of the country, the Septimian Lepcitanians [in return for] his continuous indulgence.
Commentary:
No comment.
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