WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0017. Dedication to Divus Traianus

Description: panel (w: 0.59 x h: 0.93) of cream marble.
Text: Inscribed within a moulded border (die, w: 0.38 x h: 0.71).
Letters: Second century lapidary capitals: 0.055.

Date: After CE 117 (deification of Trajan)

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio I, Capitolium: found in the vaults; see note on 1.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Sabratha Museum.

Interpretive

Diuo
Traiano
patri

Diplomatic

DIUO
TRAIANO
PATRI

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To deified Trajan, father

Bibliography: IRT, 1952 17, whence IRT, 2009 17, whence EDH 059016; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 219, detail)

   Fig. 2. From left: Upper row: 26a, 26b, 26c; Middle row: 19 (above), 25c (below), 17, 128 (above), 64 (below); Lower row: 25b, 625a, 20: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 219)