Dedication to Commodus
created: Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
source date: CE 183-185
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Imperatori Caesari Marco Aurelio Commodo Antonino Augusto Pio patri patriae Lucius Aemilius Luci filius Quirina tribu [...] consul proconsul Asiae Genio Coloniae [...] item sestertiis X centena milia nummum legauit ex cuius usuris sportulae ciuibus et ludi [...] darentur quod opus Sulla frater et [...]

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 [...]

Commodus was Pius in 183; Felix in 185.

Aemilius Frontinus: PIR, A 345, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/985