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370. Building inscription under Antoninus Pius

Description:: Five blocks (lengths varying; h: 0.51 x d: 0.46) of grey limestone.
Text:: Inscribed on one face.
Letters:: Lapidary capitals: 0.11.
Date:: A.D. 153 (titulature)
Findspot:: Lepcis Magna: Four found in the Forum Vetus, in the portico at the West angle, near the Temple of Liber Pater, the fifth in the Port Area, on the steps by the Temple of Jupiter Dolichenus.
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Findspot
Bibliography:: R. Cagnat et A. Merlin, Inscriptions latines d'Afrique (Tripolitaine, Tunisie, Maroc), Paris, 1923, I c) (one block only). 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(eratore) Caes(are) T(ito) A[elio Hadriano] Antonino Aug(usto) Pio pont(ifice) max(imo) trib(unicia) pot(estate) XVI imp(eratore) II co(n)s(ule) IIII p(atre) p(atriae)
tem[plum ·· c. 5··] Aug(usti) Calpurnia Honesta sua pecunia fecit

IMPCAESTA[··············]ANTONINOAVGPIOPONTMAXTRIBPOTXVIIMPIICOSIIIIPP
TEM[······· c. 5··]AVGCALPVRNIAHONESTASVAPECVNIAFECIT

<ab>

<expan>

<abbr>

Imp

</abbr>

<ex>

eratore

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

Caes

</abbr>

<ex>

are

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

ito

</ex>

</expan>

elio

</supplied>

Hadriano

</supplied>

Antonino

<expan>

<abbr>

Aug

</abbr>

<ex>

usto

</ex>

</expan>

Pio

<expan>

<abbr>

pont

</abbr>

<ex>

ifice

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

max

</abbr>

<ex>

imo

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

trib

</abbr>

<ex>

unicia

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

pot

</abbr>

<ex>

estate

</ex>

</expan>

XVI

</num>

<expan>

<abbr>

imp

</abbr>

<ex>

eratore

</ex>

</expan>

</num>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

ule

</ex>

</expan>

IIII

</num>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

atre

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

atriae

</ex>

</expan>

tem

plum

</supplied>

<expan>

<abbr>

Aug

</abbr>

<ex>

usti

</ex>

</expan>

Calpurnia

Honesta

sua

pecunia

fecit

</ab>

Translation:

When emperor Caesar Titus A[elius Hadrian] Antoninus Augustus Pius was chief priest, holding tribunician power for the sixteenth time, acclaimed victor twice, consul four times, father of the country, Calpurnia Honesta built at her own expense a temple [of·· ? ··] Augustus.