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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0337. Dedication to Claudius

Description: Low moulded base (w: 0.70 x h: 0.50 x d: 0.50) of grey limestone, one of a series of five uniform bases; see also 326, 327, 333, 340.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Irregular capitals: line 1 and 3, 0.045; line 2, 0.05; line 4, 0.035.

Date: CE 45: GODOT (internal date)

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

Interpretive

Ti(berio) Claudio Caesari Aug(usto)
Germanico pont(ifici)
max(imo) trib(unicia) pot(estate) V imp(eratori) XI p(atri) p(atriae)
co(n)s(uli) desig(nato) IIII

Diplomatic

TICLAUDIOCAESARIAUG
GERMANICOPONT
MAXTRIBPOTVIMPXIPP
COSDESIGIIII

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the fifth time, acclaimed victor eleven times, father of the country, designated consul for the fourth time.

Commentary

Line 3. trib. pot. V - 25 Jan. 45 - 24 Jan. 46.

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1940c, 33ff., fig. 18, whence AE 1948.15; IRT, 1952, 337, whence IRT, 2009, 337, whence EDH 019707; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: 337, 326: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 1090)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 1089)