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454. Dedication to Gordian III

Description:: Moulded base (w: 0.62 x h: 1.44 x d: 0.60) of brown limestone.
Text:: Inscribed on two faces, see also 463; on this face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.38 x h: 0.85), mutilated at the top and right-hand side.
Letters:: Irregular capitals: 0.03-0.04.
Date:: A.D. 238 (titulature)
Findspot:: Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, South Portico.
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Findspot
Bibliography:: U. Ciotti, Bollettino dell'Istituto Nazionale d'Arte e d'Archeologia XI:119. 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) Cae[s](ari)
M(arco) Antonio
Gordiano
Pio Felic[i]
5 Aug(usto) pon[t(ifici)]
max(imo) tr[ib(unicia)]
pot(estate) I [ - - - ]
Lepcita[ni]
publice

IMPCAE[··]
MANTONIO
GORDIANO
PIOFELIC[··]
5AVGPON[········]
MAXTR[··········]
POTI[ - - - ]
LEPCITA[···]
PVBLICE

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<expan>

<abbr>

Imp

</abbr>

<ex>

eratori

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

Cae

</supplied>

</abbr>

<ex>

ari

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

arco

</ex>

</expan>

Antonio

Gordiano

Pio

Felic

</supplied>

<expan>

<abbr>

Aug

</abbr>

<ex>

usto

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

pon

</supplied>

</abbr>

<ex>

ifici

</ex>

</supplied>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

max

</abbr>

<ex>

imo

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</supplied>

</abbr>

<ex>

unicia

</ex>

</supplied>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

pot

</abbr>

<ex>

estate

</ex>

</expan>

</num>

Lepcita

</supplied>

publice

</ab>

Translation:

To emperor Caesar Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius, Felix, Augustus, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the first time [·· ? ··]the Lepcitanians publicly.