Description: Three marble
balustrade blocks
(h:
0.66 high) from the
monumental inscription of the entablature of
the Antonine Temple. Two of the blocks, from the angles of the building, are substantially complete.
The third is fragmentary.
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals line 1, 0.13; line 2, 0.105; lines 3-4, 0.095.
Date: CE 166-169 (reign)
Findspot:
Sabratha: Regio II,
Antonine Temple
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Interpretive
Imp(eratori) Caes[ari M(arco) Au]reḷị[o Antonino Aug(usto) Armeniaco Parthico maximo Medico pontifici maximo tribunicia
potestate c. 1 - 4 imp(eratori) c. 1 - 4 co(n)s(uli) c. 1 - 4 et]
Imp(eratori) Caesari Ḷ(ucio) [Aurelio Uero Aug(usto) Armeniaco Parthico maximo Medico pontifici maximo tribunicia potestate
c. 1 - 4 imp(eratori) c. 1 - 4 co(n)s(uli) c. 1 - 4 diui Pii filiis diui Hadriani ] nepotib(us)
diui Traiani Pạ[rthici pronepotibus diui Neruae abnepotibus ---]
M(anius) Acilius Glab[rio ---]
Diplomatic
IMPCAES[....][..]RE..[...........................................................................c. 1 - 4...c. 1 - 4...c. 1 - 4..]
IMPCAESARI.[.............................................................................c. 1 - 4...c. 1 - 4...c. 1 - 4.........................]NEPOTIB
DIUITRAIANIP.[.......................................---]
MACILIUSGLAB[...---]
1,.2: The length of the lines, which can be calculated from the position of the blocks, necessitates the inclusion of the titles
supplied here.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Emperor Caesar [Marcus] Aurelius [Antoninus Augustus, victor in Armenia, greatest victor in Parthia, victor in Media, high
priest, holding Tribunician power for the . . . time, acclaimed victor . . . times, consul for the . . . time, and] to Emperor
Caesar Lucius [Aurelius Verus Augustus, victor in Armenia, greatest victor in Parthia, victor in Media, holding tribunician
power for the . . . time, accaimed victor . . . times, consul for the . . . time, sons of deified Pius,] grandsons [of deified
Hadrian, great grandsons] of deified Trajan, victor in Parthia, [great great grandsons of deified Nerva . . .] ; Manius Acilius
Glab[rio . . .]
Bibliography: IRT, 1952 21, whence IRT, 2009 21, whence EDH 030835; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..
Images
Fig. 1. Left end block, lines 1-4: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 844 Leica)
Fig. 2. Fragment: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XI.22)
Fig. 3. Fragment: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XI.23)
