465. Dedication to Maxentius
- Description:
- Rectangular base (w: 0.48 x h: 1.05 x d: 0.50) of brown limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.36 x h: 0.93).
- Letters:
- Fourth century A.D. capitals: 0.04-0.05.
- Date:
- A.D. 306-312 (reign)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, North East angle.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Bersanetti, Epigraphica (Rivista Italiana di Epigrafia), Milano, vol. I, 1939 V-VI:27 ff.; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1946:149. 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"
>
In
</supplied>
dulgentissimo
<lb
n="2"
/>
ac
libertatis
re
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
stitutori
uic
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
tori
<sic
>
ori
</sic>
osis
<lb
n="5"
type="worddiv"
/>
simoque
Impe
<lb
n="6"
type="worddiv"
/>
ratori
<lb
n="7"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
omino
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ostro
</ex>
Maxentio
<lb
n="8"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
P
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
io
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
F
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
elici
</ex>
inuicto
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usto
</ex>
<lb
n="9"
/>
Volusius
<lb
n="10"
/>
Donatianus
<lb
n="11"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
u
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ir
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
erfectissimus
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
raeses
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
rouinciae
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
Tripol
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
itanae
</ex>
<lb
n="12"
/>
numini
<expan>
<abbr>
maies
<lb
n="13"
type="worddiv"
/>
tatiq
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ue
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
e
</supplied>
ius
<expan>
<abbr>
dicatiss
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
imus
</ex>
Translation:
To the most indulgent, and moreover restorer of freedom, and most victorious emperor, our lord Maxentius Pius, Felix, unconquered Augustus; Volusius Donatianus, most excellent man ( i.e. of equestrian status), governor of the province of Tripolitania, deeply devoted to his divine power and majesty.
Commentary:
ll. 5-6. imperator: perhaps a reference to the defeat of the usurper L. Domitius Alexander in 311; so Bersanetti.
ll. 7-8. Maxentius: Augustus 306-312.
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