369. Dedication to Antoninus Pius

Description:
Moulded marble base (w: 0.86 x h: 1.63 x d: 0.90); on the left-hand side a jug, and on the right a Medusa head. 
Text:
Inscribed on the front (die. w: 0.55 x h: 0.62). 
Letters:
Rustic capitals: 0.075. 
Date:
A.D. 152 (titulature) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in the cella of the Temple of Liber Pater. 
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) 
Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) T(ito) Aelio
Hadriano Antonino
Aug(usto) Pio pont(ifici) max(imo)
trib(unicia) pot(estate) XV imp(eratori) II
5 co(n)s(uli) IIII p(atri) p(atriae)
Lepcitani publice
IMPCAESTAELIO
HADRIANOANTONINO
AVGPIOPONTMAX
TRIBPOTXVIMPII
5COSIIIIPP
LEPCITANIPVBLICE
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
ari
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
T
</abbr>
<ex>
ito
</ex>
</expan>
Aelio
<lb n="2" />
Hadriano
Antonino
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
Pio
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
ifici
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
imo
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
unicia
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
pot
</abbr>
<ex>
estate
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="15" >
XV
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="2" >
II
</num>
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
uli
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="4" >
IIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atri
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atriae
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="6" />
Lepcitani
publice
</ab>

Translation:

To Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrian Antoninus Augustus Pius, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the fifteenth time, acclaimed victor twice, consul four times, father of the country; the Lepcitanians publicly.

Commentary:

l. 4. trib. pot. XV - 10 Dec. 151 - 9 Dec. 152.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVI.27)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVI.27)

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