457. Dedication to Gallienus

Description:
Long rectangular base (w: 0.51 x h: 0.72 x d: 1.75) of coarse grey-brown limestone, in three pieces. Later re-used for 469. 
Text:
Inscribed on one end within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.25 x h: 0.48).  
Letters:
Rustic capitals: 0.04. 
Date:
A.D. 267 (titulature) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, East end. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Goodchild, Reports and Monographs of the Department of Antiquities in Tripolitania, Tripoli, vol. I, 1948 II:31; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1950:207. 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)
〚P(ublio) Licinio〛
〚Gallieno Pio〛
Fel(ici) Aug(usto) pont(ifici)
5 max(imo) tr(ibunicia) pot(estate) XV c̣ọ(n)s(uli)
VII p(atri) p(atriae) proco(n)s(uli) Lep(citani) Sep(timiani)
Saloniniani pu{r}(blice)
IMPCAES
〚PLICINIO〛
〚GALLIENOPIO〛
FELAVGPONT
5MAXTRPOTXV··S
VIIPPPROCOSLEPSEP
SALONINIANIPV{R}
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
ari
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
<del>
<expan>
<abbr>
P
</abbr>
<ex>
ublio
</ex>
</expan>
Licinio
</del>
<lb n="3" />
<del>
Gallieno
Pio
</del>
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Fel
</abbr>
<ex>
ici
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
ifici
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
imo
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
tr
</abbr>
<ex>
ibunicia
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
pot
</abbr>
<ex>
estate
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="15" >
XV
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
<unclear reason="" >
co
</unclear>
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
uli
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="6" />
<num value="7" >
VII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atri
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atriae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
proco
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
uli
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Lep
</abbr>
<ex>
citani
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Sep
</abbr>
<ex>
timiani
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="7" />
Saloniniani
<expan>
<abbr>
pu
</abbr>
<sic >
r
</sic>
<ex>
blice
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

To Emperor Caesar Publius Licinius Gallienus Pius (Publius to Pius erased) Felix Augustus, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the fifteenth time, consul seven times, father of the country, proconsul, the Lepcitanians Septimian and Saloninian (set this up) publicly.

Commentary:

l. 5. trib. pot. XV - 10 Dec. 266 - 9 - Dec. 267.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1554 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1554 Leica)

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