308. Title and dedication for an image of Augusta Salutaris
- Description:
- Panel (w: 4.56 x h: 0.69 x d: 0.25) and fragment from the left end of similar panel (w: 1.24 x h: 0.65 x d: 0.27), both of grey limestone, inscribed within a moulded border (die of complete panel, w: 4.35 x h: 0.48). The first letter of l. 2 of the fragment is set 0.98 from the border, as against 0.11 on the complete panel, but in all other respects they seem to have been identical.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving faces.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: l.1, 0.25: l. 2, 0.16.
- Date:
- A.D. 30 (prosopography)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Decumanus maximus. Both found beside the base of a formal arch, which spans the street between Reg. II, ins. 1 and Reg. III, ins 1.
- 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"
/>
Augusta
Salutaris
<lb
n="2"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
aius
</ex>
Vibius
Marsus
<expan>
<abbr>
proco
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</abbr>
s
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</expan>
<ex>
</supplied>
ul
</ex>
<num
value="3"
>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
I
</supplied>
II
</num>
dedicauit
2, III´: The superscript bar shows that a figure is lost.
Translation:
Augusta Salutaris. Caius Vibius Marsus, proconsul for the third year dedicated (this).
Commentary:
l. 2. C. Vibius Marsus. Cos. suff. 17 - PIR (1) V 388.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.XXI.28)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 817)
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