Description: Impression left by a fragment of a lost marble
panel
(approx. w:
1.42 x h:
0.94, upper edge surviving).
Text: Originally inscribed on marble. Read by Bartoccini when first excavated; now somewhat deteriorated.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.16; line 2, 0.13; line 3, 0.10.
Date: CE 175-180: GODOT (titulature)
Findspot:
Sabratha: Regio I,
re-used in the late fourth century paving at the west end of the
North Forum Portico: see also 27, 41,
43, 95.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Interpretive
[Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) M(arco) Aurelio Antonino Aug(usto) Germanico] Sarmatico [pontifici maximo tribunicia potestate c. 1 - 4 imp(eratori) c. 1 - 4 co(n)s(uli) c. 1 - 4 p(atri) p(atriae)]
[diui Antonini Pii filio diui Uer]i Part[h(ici)] maximi [fratri diui Hadriani nep(oti) diui Traiani Parth(ici) pronep(oti)
diui Neruae abnep(oti)]
[--- pat]rono IIuir(o) q(uin)q(uennali) [---]
Diplomatic
[...................................]SARMATICO[..................................c. 1 - 4...c. 1 - 4...c. 1 - 4..]
[...........................]IPART[.]MAXIMI[..........................................................]
[---...]RONOIIUIRQQ[---]
3: Of this line, only the second Q with superscript bar can now be read.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[To Emperor Caesar, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, victor in Germany], victor in Sarmatia, [chief priest, holding tribunician
power for the . . . time, acclaimed victor . . . times, consul . . . times, father of the country, son of deified Emperor
Antoninus Pius, brother of deified]Verus, greatest victor in Parthia, [grandson of deified Hadrian, great grandson of deified
Trajan victor in Parthia, great great grandson of deified Nerva . . . with . . . ] patron, duovir in a fifth year, [--- in charge of the work]
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1950, 53.c, whence AE 1950.153c; IRT, 1952, 23, whence IRT, 2009, 23, whence EDH 021934; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1946 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 46.V.10)
