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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0352. Fragmentary building dedication to Trajan

Description: Fragments of a panel of white marble (together, height 0.37).
Text: Inscribed within a moulded border
Letters: Lettering: line 1-3, Second century CE capitals; ll, 0.06;line 2, 0.035; line 3, 0.045; line 4-6, Rustic capitals;line 4, 0.045; line 5. 0.04; line 6, 0.035.

Date: CE 101-102: GODOT and GODOT (internal date)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

a

( line 1- 5: )

[Imp(eratore) Caesar]e diui N[eruae f(ilio)] Ṇ[e]ṛua T[rai]ạṇ[o Augusto]
Germ(anico) pont(ifice) [max(imo)] tri[b(unicia) pot(estate) c. 1 - 4] co(n)s(ule) IIII p(atre) [p(atriae)]
[---]s M(arci) f(ilius) Quir(ina tribu) Seue[rus f]lame[n] diui Clau[di]
[---]m basilicae maioris ạ[mpl]iores [c. 4]ṣịṭ [---]
5 [---]icae ther[ma]- [---]
b

( line 4-6: )

[--- amplius adi]ẹctis (sestertiis) [---]
5 [--- p]orticus [---]
[---][---]
c

( ll 5-6 )

[---]A[---]
[---]Ị ampliu[s ---]
d

( ll 5-6 )

[---]ỊṢ[---]
[---] XX m[ilia nummum ---]

Diplomatic

a

( line 1- 5: )

[.........]EDIUIN[......].[.].UAT[...]..[........]
GERMPONT[...]TRI[.....c. 1 - 4]COSIIIIP[.]
[---]SMFQUIRSEUE[....]LAME[.]DIUICLAU[..]
[---]MBASILICAEMAIORIS.[...]IORES[····]...[---]
5[---]ICAETHER[..---]
b

( line 4-6: )

[---..........].CTIS.[---]
5[---.]ORTICUS[---]
[---].[---]
c

( ll 5-6 )

[---]A[---]
[---].AMPLIU[.---]
d

( ll 5-6 )

[---]..[---]
[---]XXM[..........---]

c.1: or M

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

a. When [emperor Caesar], son of deified Nerva, Nerva T[raj]an [Augustus] Germanicus was [chief] priest, held tribunician [power for the ? time], consul for the fourth, father [of the country---] Severus, son of Marcus, of the Roman voting tribe Quirina, flamen (priest) of deified Claudius, [---] enlarged [the---and the---] of the greater basilica [---] ? the hot water bath [---]

b.[---] adding [---] sesterces [---] the porticoes [---]

(c. line 2) [---]greater[---]

(d. line 2)[---] twenty thousand [sesterces---]

Commentary

a) line 2. cos. IIII - Jan. 101 - 31 Dec. 102.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 352, whence IRT, 2009, 352, whence EDH 059280; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXII.33)