WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0004. Dedication to Concordia by Africanus

Description: Rectangular base of marble (w: 0.53 x h: 0.35 x d: 0.56).
Text: Inscribed within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.41 x h: 0.22).
Letters: Second century lapidary capitals: 0.05.

Date: Second century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio I, Capitolium: found with associated bust of Concordia.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Sabratha Museum.

Interpretive

Concordiae
Africanus

Diplomatic

CONCORDIAE
AFRICANUS

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To Concordia; Africanus (scil. gave and dedicated this).

Commentary

Africanus is also in 9, line 2.

Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1925a, 284, whence AE 1925.101; IRT, 1952 4, whence IRT, 2009 4, whence EDH 025837; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 146)

   Fig. 2. Monument (Roueché 2010)