453. Dedication to Maximin the younger
- Description:
- Moulded base (w: 0.65 x h: 1.58 x d: 0.58) broken in two pieces, of fine-grained grey limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.37 x h: 0.92). Uniform with 452.
- Letters:
- Rustic capitals: ll. 1-4, av. 0.06; ll. 5-6, av. 0.05.
- Date:
- A.D. 236 (from 452)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, now in the vaults of the Temple of Rome and Augustus.
- 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>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<del>
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
aio
</ex>
Iulio
</del>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<del>
Vero
Maximo
</del>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<del>
</del>
nobilissimo
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ari
</ex>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<del>
Lepcitani
</del>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<del>
Septimiani
</del>
<lb
n="6"
/>
<del>
</ab>
publice
</del>
Translation:
To Caius Julius Verus Maximus, most noble Caesar; the Septimian Lepcitanians publicly (all erased)
Commentary:
Dated by 452 in 236.
The whole inscription erased, rather half-heartedly, after damnatio in 238.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 909)
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