471. Dedication to Constantius II
- Description:
- Moulded marble base (w: 0.90 x h: 1.10 x d: 0.55).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.53 x h: 0.36), from which an earlier inscription may have been erased; a formal spray follows the text.
- Letters:
- Fourth century A.D. capitals: av. 0.03.
- Date:
- A.D. 337-361 (reign)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, North side.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Bersanetti, Epigraphica (Rivista Italiana di Epigrafia), Milano, vol. I, 1939 VII:39; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1947:62. 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"
/>
Pietate
insigni
praedito
ac
legum
<lb
n="2"
/>
omnium
iustissimo
moderatori
<lb
n="3"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
omino
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ostro
</ex>
Flauio
Iulio
Constantio
uicto
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
riosissimo
semper
Augusto
<lb
n="5"
/>
Marcus
Nicentius
<expan>
<abbr>
u
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ir
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
erfectissimus
</ex>
praeses
<lb
n="6"
/>
prouinciae
Tripolitanae
dicauit
<lb
n="7"
/>
numini
maiestatique
eius
cum
Lepci
<lb
n="8"
type="worddiv"
/>
magnensibus
deuotus
Translation:
To one endowed with remarkable piety, and moreover most just moderator of all laws, our lord Flavius Julius Constantius, most victorious, always Augustus; Marcus Nicentius, excellent man (i.e. equestrian) governor of the province of Tripolitania, dedicated (this) along with the Lepcitanians to his divine power and majesty, being devoted (to him).
Commentary:
l. 4. Constantius II: Augustus 337-361.
l. 5. There are two Nicentii known in this period, PW XVII, 172, 1 and 2.
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