332. Fragmentary building dedication to Tiberius

Description:
Eleven blocks of compact grey limestone, the successive courses of a monumental inscription. a) Eight blocks, total length: 7.64. b) Three blocks, total length: 2.67. 
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving faces. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals. a) Lettering from top of block: l. 1, 0.07-0.22; I. 2, 0.28-0.41; to bottom, 0.48. b) Lettering: from top of block: l. 1 (decapitated) 0.13; l. 2, 0.19-0.31; to bottom, 0.33. 
Date:
A.D. 31-37 (titulature) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Punic Market. Found re-used in the stylobate of the north-eastern colonnade of the surrounding portico and now reconstituted nearby. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Reconstituted near the surrounding portico of the Market. 
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) 
a
Ti(berio) Caesari diui Aug(usti) f(ilio) Augusto d[i]ui Iuli [nepo]ti Augus[to] [p]ont(ifici) max[(imo) co(n)s(uli)] V
imp(eratori) VIII [tribu]nicia p[otestate] XXX [·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··] proco(n)s(ul) [·· ? ··] patronus fac[iend ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] dedicauit
a
TICAESARIDIVIAVGFAVGVSTOD[··]VIIVLI[·····]TIAVGVS[···][··]ONTMAX[·······]V
IMPVIII[······]NICIAP[·········]XXX[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··]PROCOS[·· ? ··]PATRONVSFAC[······· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]DEDICAVIT
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Ti
</abbr>
<ex>
berio
</ex>
</expan>
Caesari
diui
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilio
</ex>
</expan>
Augusto
d
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
ui
Iuli
<supplied reason="lost" >
nepo
</supplied>
ti
Augus
<supplied reason="lost" >
to
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
p
</supplied>
ont
</abbr>
<ex>
ifici
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<ex>
imo
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
uli
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<num value="5" >
V
</num>
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="8" >
VIII
</num>
<supplied reason="lost" >
tribu
</supplied>
nicia
p
<supplied reason="lost" >
otestate
</supplied>
<num value="30" >
XXX
</num>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
proco
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ul
</ex>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
patronus
fac
<supplied reason="lost" >
iend
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
dedicauit
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

( a.)To Tiberius Caesar Augustus, son of the deified Augustus, grandson of deified Julius, chief priest, consul [for the fifth time], acclaimed victor for the eighth, holding tribunician power for the thirty-seventh, [·· ? ··]

b. [·· ? ··]proconsul[·· ? ··] patron [saw to it·· ? ···· ? ··]

Commentary:

a) l. 1. cos. V - from 1 Jan. 31.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 325)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 325)

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