459. Fragmentary dedication, perhaps to Salonina

Description:
Rectangular base (w: 0.48 x h: 1.14 x d: 0.52) of brown limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.23 x h: 0.83). The surface of the die has been dressed, leaving faint traces only of the inscription. 
Letters:
Late form of Rustic capitals:0. 055. 
Date:
A.D. 253-268 (reign) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Theatre, built into one of the piers of the West dressing-room. 
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) 
[·· ? ··]ae
[·· ? ··]ae
G̣[·]ḷḷ[··]ṇae
[---]
5 [·· ? ··] Aug(usti)
n[o]s[tri]
Lepc(itani) Sept(imiani)
Sa[lo]ṇ[i]niani
publ(ice)
[·· ? ··]AE
[·· ? ··]AE
·[·]··[··]·AE
[---]
5[·· ? ··]AVG
N[··]S[····]
LEPCSEPT
SA[···]·[··]NIANI
PVBL
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
ae
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
ae
<lb n="3" />
<unclear reason="" >
G
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="" >
ll
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="" >
n
</unclear>
ae
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="6" />
n
<supplied reason="lost" >
o
</supplied>
s
<supplied reason="lost" >
tri
</supplied>
<lb n="7" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Lepc
</abbr>
<ex>
itani
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Sept
</abbr>
<ex>
imiani
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="8" />
Sa
<supplied reason="lost" >
lo
</supplied>
<unclear reason="" >
n
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
niani
<lb n="9" />
<expan>
<abbr>
publ
</abbr>
<ex>
ice
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··?wife] of our Augustus; the Lepcitanians Septimian and Saloninian (set this up) publicly.

Commentary:

The reading here given for l. 3 is that read on the stone, but the condition of this is hardly good enough to warrant using this text in connection with SHA <Tyr. Trig.> 29, 3. Perhaps Dominae nostrae Corneliae Saloninae coniugi Aug(usti) nostri.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVIII.43)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVIII.43)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVIII.44)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVIII.44)

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