452. Dedication to Maximin
- Description:
- Moulded base (w: 0.60 x h: 1.58 x d: 0.58), of fine-grained limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.36 x h: 0.95). Uniform with 453.
- Letters:
- Rustic capitals 0.035-0.045.
- Date:
- A.D. 236 (titulature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Vaults of the Temple of Rome and Augustus.
- 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>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratori
</ex>
<del>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ari
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
aio
</ex>
Iulio
</del>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<del>
Vero
Maximino
</del>
<lb
n="3"
/>
Pio
Felici
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usto
</ex>
<lb
n="4"
/>
patri
patriae
<lb
n="5"
/>
tribuniciae
<expan>
<abbr>
pot
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
estatis
</ex>
<num
value="2"
>
II
</num>
<lb
n="6"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uli
</ex>
proconsuli
<lb
n="7"
/>
conseruatori
<lb
n="8"
/>
orbis
<lb
n="9"
/>
Lepcitani
<lb
n="10"
/>
Septimiani
<lb
n="11"
/>
publice
</ab>
2, Verus Maximinus: Very lightly erased, after damnatio in 238.
Translation:
To emperor Caesar Caius Julius Verus Maximinus (all erased after emperor) Pius Felix Augustus, father of the country, holding tribunician power for the second time, consul, proconsul, preserver of the world; the Septimian Lepcitanians publicly.
Commentary:
l. 5. trib. pot. II - 10 Dec. 235 - 9 Dec 236.
l. 6. cos. 1 Jan. 236.
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