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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0018. Dedication to Antoninus Pius by Sabratha

Description: Fragment from the lower part of a marble panel (w: 0.17 x h: 0.22 x d: 0.025, no edges surviving).
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Second century capitals: lines 3- 4, 0.04; line 5, 0.035; line 6, 0.03.

Date: circa CE 143: GODOT (titulature)

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio VII, Office Baths, re-used in the south Caldarium.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) diui Hadriani filio]
[diui Traiani P]arthic[i nep(oti)]
[T(ito) Ae]lio
[Hadriano] Anton[ino]
5[Aug(usto) Pio trib(unicia) pot(estate) c. 1 - 3]II imp(eratori) II c[o(n)s(uli) c. 1 - 4 p(atri) p(atriae)]
[Sabrathense]s publi[ce]

Diplomatic

[..........................]
[............]ARTHIC[....]
[....]LIO
[........]ANTON[...]
5[..............c. 1 - 3]IIIMPIIC[..c. 1 - 4..]
[...........]SPUBLI[..]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[To Emperor Caesar, son of deified Hadrian, grandson of deified Trajan, victor] in Parthia, [Titus Ae]lius [Hadrianus] Antoninus [Augustus, Pius, holding tribunician power for the . . . time], acclaimed victor twice, c[onsul . . . times, father of the country]; the people of Sabratha (scil. set this up) publicly.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952 18, whence IRT, 2009 18, whence EDH 059017; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XX.11)