Description: Two sections of a marble
panel
(approx. original width × surviving height
w:
1.16 x h:
0.73).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: line l, 0.085; line 2, 0.075; line 3, 0.07; lines 4- 6, 0.065; line 8, 0.055.
Date: CE 178: GODOT (titulature)
Findspot:
Sabratha: Regio I, Capitolium, found in the vaults; see note on 1.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Sabratha Museum.
Interpretive
Imp(eratori) C[aesari] M(arco) Aurelio
Anton[ino Aug(usto)] Armeniaco
Medic[o Parth(ico)] max(imo) Germ(anico) Sarm(atico)
[pont(ifici) max(imo) trib(unicia) po]test(ate) XXXII imp(eratori) VIIII
5[co(n)s(uli) III p(atri) p(atriae) diui Anto]nini Pii fil(io) diui
[Ueri Parth(ici) max(imi) frat]ri diui Hadr(iani) n(epoti) diui
[Traiani pronep(oti) diu]i Ner[uae] abnepo[ti ---]
Diplomatic
IMPC[......]MAURELIO
ANTON[......]ARMENIACO
MEDIC[......]MAXGERMSARM
[.............]TESTXXXIIIMPVIIII
5[................]NINIPIIFILDIUI
[................]RIDIUIHADRNDIUI
[................]INER[...]ABNEPO[..---]
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Emperor Caesar, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus [Augustus], victor in Armenia, victor in Media, greatest victor in Parthia, victor
in Germany, [chief priest, holding tribunician] power for the thirty second time, acclaimed victor nine times, [consul three
times, father of the country, son of deified] Antoninus Pius, brother [of] deified [Uerus, greatest victor in Parthia,] grandson
of deified Hadrian, [great grandson of] deified [Trajan], great great grandson [of deified] Nerva [---]
Bibliography: IRT, 1952 , 24, whence IRT, 2009, 24, whence EDH 059020; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 789 Leica)
