Description: Impression left by a fragment of a lost marble
panel
(approx. w:
1.98 x h:
0.83,
when excavated).
With a moulded border top and bottom.
Text: Originally inscribed on marble. Read by Bartoccini when first excavated; much deteriorated by 1948.
Letters: Capitals: line 1, 0.135; line 2, 0.13; line 3, 0.125; line 4, 0.09.
Date: CE 183-184: 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 23,
41, 43, 95.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Interpretive
[Imp(eratori) Caesari di]ui Ma[rci] Antonini Pii f[ilio diui Pii nep(oti)]
[diui Hadriani p]ron(epoti) [di]ui Ṭ[ra]iani Par[t]h[ic]i ab[nepoti diui Neruae]
[adn(epoti) M(arco) Aurelio Com]modo [Anton]i[n]o Aug(usto) Pio [Sarm]ati[co Germanico max(imo)]
[pont(ifici) max(imo) trib(unicia) pot(estate) c. 1 - 4 im]p(eratori) VI co(n)s(uli) IIII [p(atri) p(atriae) ---]
Diplomatic
[............]UIMA[...]ANTONINIPIIF[..............]
[.............]RON[..]UI.[..]IANIPAR[.]H[..]IAB[................]
[..............]MODO[.....]I[.]OAUGPIO[....]ATI[..............]
[..............c. 1 - 4..]PVICOSIIII[..---]
1-4: The text given is Bartoccini's. The surviving letters were read in 1948 as follows:Antonini Pii filio diui Traiani Parthici
abnepoti Antonino Augusto imperatori VI consuli IIII IRT, 1952
2: Ṭ[rai]ani Par[thic]i m[a]x̣(imi) [abn(epoti) Bartoccini, 1950
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[To Emperor Caesar, son of] deified Marcus Antonius Pius, [grandson of deified Pius], great-grandson [of deified Hadrian,great-great-grandson]
of deified Trajan, greatest victor in Parthia, [great-great-great-grandson of deified Nerva, Marcus Aurelius] Commodus [Antoninus]
Augustus, Pius, [Uictor in] Sarmatia, [greatest victor in Germany, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the . . . time,
acclaimed victor] six times, consul for the fourth time, [father of the country ---]
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1950 53.d, whence AE 1950.153d; IRT, 1952, 27, whence IRT, 2009, 27, whence EDH 021937.
Images
None available (2021).
