WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0030. Dedication? to Commodus

Description: Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.155 x h: 0.23 x d: 0.15, no edges surviving).
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Second century capitals: 0.075.

Date: CE 178-192 (reign)

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio I, Capitolium, found in the vaults; see note on 1.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[Imp(erator)- Caes(ar)- --- M(arci) Antonini Pii --- fil(i)-]
[diui Pii n(ep)- diui H]adr[iani pron(ep)- diui]
[Traiani Parthici] abn(ep)- ḍ[iui Neruae adn(ep)-]
[L(uci)- Aeli- Aureli-] C̣ọ[mmod]- [Aug(ust)- ---]

Diplomatic

[.......---............---...]
[.............]ADR[............]
[...............]ABN.[............]
[...........]..[.......---]

4: Line 4 is represented by the upper parts only of two letters with rounded bowls.

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[Emperor Caesar (case unknown) --- son of Marcus Antonius Pius, grandson of deified Pius, great grandson of deified] Hadrian, great great grandson [of deified Trajan victor in Parthia], great great great grandson [of deified Nerva, Lucuis Aelius Aurelius] Commodus [Augustus ---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 30, whence IRT, 2009, 30, whence EDH 059025; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: Above 175a, Unidentified, Unidentified; Below: Unidentified, 30 Unidentified, Unidentified: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXVII.13)