Description:
Marble
block
(w:
1.18 x h:
0.64 x d:
0.36)
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second century capitals: line 1, 0.06: remainder, 0.045.
Date: CE 170: GODOT (titulature)
Findspot:
Sabratha:
Forum, in front of the Capitolium.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Interpretive
Imp(eratori) Caesari diui Antonini fil(io) diui
Ueri Parthici max(imi) fratri diui Hadr(iani) nep(oti)
diui Traiani Parthici pronep(oti) diui Neruae
abnepoti M(arco) Aurelio Antonino Aug(usto) pont(ifici)
5 max(imo) trib(unicia) potest(ate) XXIIII imp(eratori) V co(n)s(uli) III p(atri) p(atriae)
statuas duas quas Anicia Pudentilla codicillis
ex (sestertiis) XXX n(ummum) poni iussit Manlia Macrina
mater et heres adiectis ex (sestertiis) UIII n(ummum) fecit
C(aio) Manilio Maniliano genero curante
Diplomatic
IMPCAESARIDIUIANTONINIFILDIUI
UERIPARTHICIMAXFRATRIDIUIHADRNEP
DIUITRAIANIPARTHICIPRONEPDIUINERUAE
ABNEPOTIMAURELIOANTONINOAUGPONT
5MAXTRIBPOTESTXXIIIIIMPVCOSIIIPP
STATUASDUASQUASANICIAPUDENTILLACODICILLIS
EX 𐆘 XXXNPONIIUSSITMANLIAMACRINA
MATERETHERESADIECTISEX 𐆘 UIIINFECIT
CMANILIOMANILIANOGENEROCURANTE
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Emperor Caesar, son of deified Antoninus, brother of deified Verus, the greatest victor in Parthia , grandson of deified
Hadrian, great-grandson of deified Trajan the victor in Parthia, great-great-grandson of deified Nerva, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Augustus, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the 24th time, acclaimed victor five times, consul three times, father
of the country; the two statues whose erection Anicia Pudentilla ordered in her will at the expenditure of 30,000 sesterces,
Manlia Macrina, her mother and heiress, had made at the additional cost of 8,000 sesterces, with Caius Manilius Manilianus,
her son-in-law, in charge (scil. of the work)
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1925a, 287 , whence AE 1925.102; IRT, 1952 22, whence IRT, 2009 22, whence EDH 025840; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 231)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1946 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 46.VI.16)
Fig. 3. KCL visit, 2010 (TH, 334.jpg)
