477. Dedication to Theodosius I (or II)

Description:
Moulded marble base. The reverse face of 610, q.v. there are formal sprays at the end of lines 3 and 8. See also 522. 
Text:
Inscribed within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.42 x h: 0.46) from which a previous inscription has been erased. 
Letters:
Fourth century A.D. capitals: 0.03-0.05. 
Date:
379-395 A.D. (reign of Theodosius I) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, East Portico. 
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) 
Propagatori Rom[ani]
orbis et status publ[i]c[i]
conseruatori
dom(ino) n(ostro) Fl(auio) Theodosio
5Pio et Felici semper
Aug(usto) ordo Lepcimag(nensis)
numini eius deuo-
tus posuit
PROPAGATORIROM[····]
ORBISETSTATVSPVBL[··]C[··]
CONSERVATORI
DOMNFLTHEODOSIO
5PIOETFELICISEMPER
AVGORDOLEPCIMAG
NVMINIEIVSDEVO
TVSPOSVIT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Propagatori
Rom
<supplied reason="lost" >
ani
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
orbis
et
status
publ
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
c
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
conseruatori
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
dom
</abbr>
<ex>
ino
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
ostro
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Fl
</abbr>
<ex>
auio
</ex>
</expan>
Theodosio
<lb n="5" />
Pio
et
Felici
semper
<lb n="6" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
ordo
<expan>
<abbr>
Lepcimag
</abbr>
<ex>
nensis
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="7" />
numini
eius
deuo
<lb n="8" type="worddiv" />
tus
posuit
</ab>

Translation:

To the enlarger of the Roman World and preserver of the public affairs, our lord Flavius Theodosius, Pius and Felix, always Augustus; the city council of Lepcis Magna set this up, devoted to his divine power.

Commentary:

l. 6. Augustus. Probably Theodosius I, Augustus 379-395, rather than Theodosius II, 408-450.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 582)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 582)

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