479. Dedication to Honorius

Description:: Lower part of a moulded marble base (w: 0.70 x h: 1.07 x d: 0.55).
Text:: Inscribed on one face, from which an earlier inscription has been erased. There are traces of earlier inscriptions, now erased, on the right and left-hand faces also.
Letters:: Fourth century A.D. capitals, 0.035-0.055
Date:: A.D. 393-423 (reign)
Findspot:: Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, South Portico.
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Findspot
Bibliography:: A. Degrassi, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, Roma (Ministero dell'Africa Italiana), vol. I, 1950, III 1954. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952; including revisions from J. M. Reynolds, 'Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania: A Supplement', Proceedings of the British School at Rome 23 (1955), 124-147
Text constituted from:: Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)

A[·· c. 9··]OCON[·]
D(omino) [n(ostro)] Honorio Pio
Felici uictori
ac triumfatori
5semper Augusto
Lepcitani deuoti
numini maiesta-
tique eius

A[·· c. 9··]OCON[·]
D[··]HONORIOPIO
FELICIVICTORI
ACTRIVMFATORI
5SEMPERAVGVSTO
LEPCITANIDEVOTI
NVMINIMAIESTA
TIQVEEIVS

<ab>

<orig >

</orig>

<orig >

ocon

</orig>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

omino

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

ostro

</ex>

</expan>

</supplied>

Honorio

Pio

Felici

uictori

triumfatori

semper

Augusto

Lepcitani

deuoti

numini

maiesta

tique

eius

</ab>

1, This line is spaced apart from the rest of the text.

1, a[etern]o con[s (uli)] , Degrassi: this cannot be accepted. The stone has been re-examined; traces of the letter before O survive and are inconsistent with N; they should perhaps be read as R.

Translation:

[·· ? ··] to [our] lord Honorius Pius Felix, victor and triumphator, always Augustus; the Lepcitanians, devoted to his divine power and majesty, (set this up).