item (sestertiis) X centena mil(ia) n(ummum) legauit ex cu[ius usu]r(is) sportulae ciuibus et ḷuḍ[i --- darent]ur quod opus Sulla frater et [---]
Description: Four inscribed marble
blocks
(lengths respectively, 2.52,
2.13,
1.42 (incomplete) and
2.05
w:
2.05 x h:
0.95 x d:
0.90) from the left-hand part of the architrave of a temple,
of which a large part of the pediment, with figures of the Tyche of Oea, of
Apollo, of Minerva, and of the Dioscuri, also survives.
Text: There are mouldings at
top and bottom, and centrally between the two lines of the inscription. There
were originally 5, or possibly 6, blocks to the complete architrave, those at the
ends being longer than those in the centre.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.155; line 2, 0.085
Date: CE 183-185 (titulature)
Findspot:
Tripoli:
Oea:
Arch of Marcus Aurelius. Found during the isolation and restoration of the arch.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
item (sestertiis) X centena mil(ia) n(ummum) legauit ex cu[ius usu]r(is) sportulae ciuibus et ḷuḍ[i --- darent]ur quod opus Sulla frater et [---]
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Father of the Country; Lucius Aemilius [---], son of Lucius, of the Roman voting tribe Quirina, consul, proconsul (i.e. governor) of Asia, to the Genius of the colony [---]; likewise he beqeathed 100,000 sesterces, from the interest of which food boxes should be provided for the citizens, and games [---]. This matter his brother Sulla and [---]
Commentary
Commodus was Pius in 183; Felix in 185.
Aemilius Frontinus: PIR, A 345, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/985
Bibliography: Caputo, 1940a, 35, figs. 2-5, whence AE, 1942-43.1; discussed Barbieri, 1941, 196, 292 ff., whence AE, 1945.32, 1945.68; IRT, 1952, 230, whence IRT, 2009, 230, whence EDH 019884; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.