472. Dedication to Valentinian I and Valens
- Description:
- Moulded marble base (w: 1.00 x h: 1.55 x d: 1.00).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a recessed panel (die, w: 0.47 x h: 0.64); uniform with 473 and closely related to 57, 58.
- Letters:
- Fourth century A.D. capitals: 0.04-0.05
- Date:
- A.D. 364-367 (reign)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, North Portico.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Bartoccini, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940, II:48; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1929:5. 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)
pietate caelestibus adq(ue)
Romanae felicitatis perpe-
tuis fundatoribus d(ominis) n(nostris)
5Valentiniano et Valenti
uictoriosissimis principi-
bus ac totius orbis Aug(ustis)
Antonius Dracontius u(ir) c(larissimus)
ag(ens) uic(es) praef(ectorum) praetorio per
10Africanas prouincias ni-
mini et maiestati eorum
semper dicatissimus
4, DD NN.
7, AVGG: 364-367.
10, sic
Translation:
To (those) equally godlike in justice and piety and perpetual founders of Roman good fortune, our lords Valentinian and Valens, most victorious emperors and Augusti of the whole world; Antonius Dracontius, splendid man (i.e. of senatorial status), deputy for the praetorian prefects throughout the African provinces, always deeply devoted to their divine power and majesty, (set this up).
Commentary:
l. 8. Antonius Dracontius. PW V 1635 3 vicarius 364.367: also in 57, ll. 7.13, 58, ll. 8.14; 473, ll. 8.12.
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