478. Dedication to Arcadius
- Description:
- Moulded marble base (w: 0.65 x h: 1.45 x d: 0.65).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.24 x h: 0.57); two lines are cut below the die.
- Letters:
- Fourth century A.D. capitals: 0.03-0.04.
- Date:
- A.D. 383-408 (reign)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, South 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Toto
orbe
<lb
n="2"
/>
pacifico
<lb
n="3"
/>
consuli
<lb
n="4"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
omino
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ostro
</ex>
Flauio
<lb
n="5"
/>
Arcadio
<lb
n="6"
/>
Pio
Felici
<lb
n="7"
/>
uictori
ac
<lb
n="8"
/>
triumfato
<lb
n="9"
type="worddiv"
/>
ri
semper
<lb
n="10"
/>
Augusto
<lb
n="11"
/>
Lepcitani
deuoti
<expan>
<abbr>
num
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ini
</ex>
<lb
n="12"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
maiestatiq
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ue
</ex>
eius
Translation:
To one who is a peace-making consul throughout the world, our lord Flavius Arcadius Pius Felix victor and triumphator, always Augustus; the Lepcitanians, devoted to his divine power and majesty, (set this up) .
Commentary:
l. 10. Arcadius: Augustus 383-408.
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