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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0333. Dedication to Tiberius

Description: Low moulded base (w: 0.70 x h: 0.45 x d: 0.50) of grey limestone. One of a series of five uniform bases; see also 326, 327, 337, 340. Dated by 337 in 45-46.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Irregular capitals: 0.05.

Date: CE 45-46 (see 337)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, behind the Temple of Rome and Augustus.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Ti(berio) Caesari diui Aug(usti)
f(ilio) Augusto

Diplomatic

TICAESARIDIUIAUG
FAUGUSTO

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To Tiberius Caesar Augustus, son of deified Augustus.

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1940c, 32ff., fig. 17, whence AE 1948.14; IRT, 1952, 333, whence IRT, 2009, 333, whence EDH 019704; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 941)