466. Dedication to Constantius I or Constantine I, as Caesar

Description:
Moulded base (w: 0.60 x h: 1.35 x d: 0.60; height incomplete.) of brown limestone, much damaged. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a recessed panel (die, w: 0.43 x ). 
Letters:
Fourth century A.D. capitals: 0.04. 
Date:
A.D. 293-305 or 306-7 (Constantius or Constantine as Caesar).  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, East end. 
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) 
[---]
2 [nobilissi]ṃo Caesari
[Flauio V]alerio Constan
[ - - - ] Lepcitani
5 [de]uoti numini maies-
tatique eius publice
[---]
2[··········]·OCAESARI
[·········]ALERIOCONSTAN
[ - - - ]LEPCITANI
5[···]VOTINVMINIMAIES
TATIQVEEIVSPVBLICE
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
nobilissi
</supplied>
<unclear reason="" >
m
</unclear>
o
Caesari
<lb n="3" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Flauio
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
V
</supplied>
alerio
Constan
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" extentmax="4" />
Lepcitani
<lb n="5" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
de
</supplied>
uoti
numini
maies
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
tatique
eius
publice
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··]to [the most noble] Caesar, [Flavius] Valerius Constan[t·· ? ··]; the Lepcitanians, devoted to his divine power and majesty, (set this up) publicly.

Commentary:

l. 3. Either Constantius I, Caesar 293-305 ; or Constantine the Great, Caesar 306-307.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 229)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 229)

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