460. Dedication to Valerian Caesar
- Description:
- a) Rectangular base (w: 0.51 x h: 0.94 x d: 0.50) of grey limestone. b) Fragment of a similar base (surviving measurements, w: 0.52 x h: 0.45).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Late, irregular form of lapidary capitals: 11.1-2, 4-5, 0.055; 1. 3. 0.065: 11. 6-8. 0.065-0.07.
- Date:
- A.D. 253-255 (titulature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Gasr esc-Sciaddad, the mausoleum on the right bank of Wadi Lebdah. a) Found in 1914 about 30m. from the mausoleum, 750m. from the Circus. Probably moved in 1914 to Fort Settimio Severo. Since lost. Not seen. b) Found beside a.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- a) Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 III:82 ff.; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1931:1. b) Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 III:83 ff. 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:
- Previous publications
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ublio
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Cornelio
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Licinio
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Valeriano
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nobilissimo
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Caes
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ari
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Lepcitani
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Septimiani
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publ
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ice
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P
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ublio
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C
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o
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Translation:
(a) To Publius Cornelius Licinius Valerianus, most noble Caesar; the Septimian Lepcitanians (set this up) publicly.
(b) To Publius Cornelius [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
a) l. 5. Valerianus: Caesar 253-255.
Photographs:
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