606. Honours for a pantomime dancer

Description:
Moulded marble base (w: 1.10 x h: 1.45 x d: 1.11). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.64 x h: 0.62). 
Letters:
Capitals of a form unusual at Lepcis: 0.045-0.035. 
Date:
211-217 A.D. (reign) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Theatre - in situ in the portico behind it. 
Original Location:
Findspot 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Caputo, Rivista Italiana del Dramma, XV:10 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) 
M(arco) Septimio Aurelio Agrippae
M(arci) Aureli Antonini Pii Felicis Aug(usti) lib(erto)
pantomimo temporis sui primo
Romae adulescentium productorum
5condiscipulo ad Italiae spectacula
a domino nostro Aug(usto) prouecto
decurionalibus ornamentis Verona
et Vicetia ornato Mediolano in-
ter iuuenes recepto in Africa
10Lepci Mag(na) a domino nostro Aug(usto)
ordinato P(ublius) Albucius Apollonius
Mediolanensis ex Italia amico rari
exempli permissu splendidissimi ord(inis) p(osuit)
MSEPTIMIOAVRELIOAGRIPPAE
MAVRELIANTONINIPIIFELICISAVGLIB
PANTOMIMOTEMPORISSVIPRIMO
ROMAEADVLESCENTIVMPRODVCTORVM
5CONDISCIPVLOADITALIAESPECTACVLA
ADOMINONOSTROAVGPROVECTO
DECVRIONALIBVSORNAMENTISVERONA
ETVICETIAORNATOMEDIOLANOIN
TERIVVENESRECEPTOINAFRICA
10LEPCIMAGADOMINONOSTROAVG
ORDINATOPALBVCIVSAPOLLONIVS
MEDIOLANENSISEXITALIAAMICORARI
EXEMPLIPERMISSVSPLENDIDISSIMIORDP
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M
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Septimio
Aurelio
Agrippae
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M
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arci
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Aureli
Antonini
Pii
Felicis
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Aug
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usti
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lib
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erto
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pantomimo
temporis
sui
primo
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Romae
adulescentium
productorum
<lb n="5" />
condiscipulo
ad
Italiae
spectacula
<lb n="6" />
a
domino
nostro
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
prouecto
<lb n="7" />
decurionalibus
ornamentis
Verona
<lb n="8" />
et
Vicetia
ornato
Mediolano
in
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ter
iuuenes
recepto
in
Africa
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Lepci
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<abbr>
Mag
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<ex>
na
</ex>
</expan>
a
domino
nostro
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="11" />
ordinato
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<abbr>
P
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<ex>
ublius
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Albucius
Apollonius
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Mediolanensis
ex
Italia
amico
rari
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exempli
permissu
splendidissimi
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ord
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inis
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p
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osuit
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Translation:

To Marcus Septimius Aurelius Agrippa, freedman of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus, foremost pantomime of his time, a fellow-pupil of the ?educated young men at Rome, promoted by our lord Augustus, decorated with the insigna of a civic councillor at Verona and Vicetia, at Milan accepted as a member of the youth organization, in Africa, at Lepcis Magna, enrolled by our lord Augustus as a city councillor; Publius Albucius Apollonius of Milan, from Italy, erected (this) to a friend of a rare kind, by permission of the most splendid city council.

Commentary:

l. 2. M. Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus. From 198, but Felix does not appear regularly among Caracalla's titles before 211.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 752 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 752 Leica)

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