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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0046. Dedication to Maximinus

Description: Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.20 x h: 0.13).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Third century capitals: 0.045.

Date: CE 236: GODOT (internal date)

Findspot: Sabratha: The street from the Byzantine Gate to the Forum, ("Via della Ninfa ", MS note on a tracing in the Superintendency Archives)
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Sabratha Museum.

Interpretive

[Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) C(aio) Iulio Uero Maximino P(io) F(elici) Aug(usto)]
[pont(ifici) max(imo) G]erm(anico) max(imo) Ḍ[acico max(imo) Sarm(atico) max(imo)]
[trib(unicia) p]ot(estate) II co[(n)s][(uli) imp(eratori) c. 1 - 4 proco(n)s(uli) p(atri) p(atriae) ---]
[c. 10] III [---]

Diplomatic

[..............................]
[........]ERMMAX.[...............]
[.....]OTIICO[.][...c. 1 - 4........---]
[··········]III[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[To the Emperor Caesar Caius Julius Verus Maximinus, Pius, Felix, Augustus, chief priest, greatest] Victor in Germany, greatest Victor in Dacia, [greatest Victor in Sarmatia, holding tribunician] power for the second time, consul, [acclaimed victor ? times, proconsul, father of the country [ . . . ]]III[---]

Commentary

Line 3. trib. pot. II. 10 Dec. 235 - 9 Dec. 236.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 46, whence IRT, 2009, 46, whence EDH 059039; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: Above, Unidentified, 46, Unidentified; Below, Unidentified, Unidentified, 40: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XVIII.32)

   Fig. 2. From left: Above, Unidentified, 46, Unidentified; Below, Unidentified, Unidentified, 40: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 828 Leica)


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