WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0020. Dedication to deified Faustina

Description: The upper part of a marble panel (w: 0.70 x h: 0.72).
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.085; line 2, 0.08; lines 3-4, 0.075; line 5, 0.07.

Date: c. CE 141 (deification of Faustina)

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

Interpretive

Diuae Faustinae
Imp(eratoris) Caesaris
T(iti) Aeli Hadriani
Antonini Aug(usti)
5Pii

Diplomatic

DIUAEFAUSTINAE
IMPCAESARIS
TAELIHADRIANI
ANTONINIAUG
5PII

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To deified Faustina, wife of Emperor Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius

Commentary

Faustina was deified in 141.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952 20, whence IRT, 2009 20, whence EDH 059019; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 787 Leica)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 219, detail)

   Fig. 3. 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)