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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0361. Dedication to Hadrian

Description: Monumental inscription on blocks (lengths varying, w: 0.51 x h: 0.52) of grey limestone, many of them damaged. It has proved impossible to reconstruct more than a small part of line 2.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: line 1, 0 24 , line 2, 0.16.

Date: CE 137: GODOT (titulature)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio II, Hadrianic Baths from the facade.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

1
Imp(eratore) Caesar[e d]iui [Tra]ian[i Par]thici f(ilio) [diui] Ner[uae] n(epote) Traia[n]o Had[riano] Aug(usto) p[on]t[(ifice) max(imo) tr]ib[(unicia) pot(estate) X]XI [co(n)s(ule) III p(atre)] p(atriae)
2
a
[--- P(ublius)] Ualerius Priscus proco(n)s(ul) per [P]opilium Cele[rem leg(atum) suum ---]
b
[---]ḷa auspica[uit ---]
c
[--- th]erm[---]
d
[---] publi[c---]
e
[---]lo fe[---]
f
[---]nt ( vac. )
g
[---]E ( vac. 1) E[---]
h
[---] IN[---]
i
[---]NU[---]
j
[---] Lepc[---]
k
[---]AS M[---]
l
[---]RO[---]
m
[---]S LI[---]
n
[---]RU[---]
o
[---]ERUI[---]
p
[---]US M[---]
q
[---]MOIC̣[---]
r
[---]LO[---]

Diplomatic

1
IMPCAESAR[..]IUI[...]IAN[....]THICIF[....]NER[...]NTRAIA[.]OHAD[.....]AUGP[..]T[.....]IB[....]XI[.......]P
2
a
[---.]UALERIUSPRISCUSPROCOSPER[.]OPILIUMCELE[..........---]
b
[---].AAUSPICA[...---]
c
[---..]ERM[---]
d
[---]PUBLI[.---]
e
[---]LOFE[---]
f
[---]NT      
g
[---]E    E[---]
h
[---]IN[---]
i
[---]NU[---]
j
[---]LEPC[---]
k
[---]AS M[---]
l
[---]RO[---]
m
[---]S LI[---]
n
[---]RU[---]
o
[---]ERUI[---]
p
[---]US M[---]
q
[---]MOI.[---]
r
[---]LO[---]

1.1: pot(estate)] XI [ IRT, 1952; pot(estate) X]XI [ Thomasson, 1972; pot(estate) X]XI [ Christol–Drew-Bear, 2005

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(1) When emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, son of deified Trajan, victor in Parthia, grandson of deified Nerva, was [chief priest], holding tribunician [power] for the eleventh time, [consul for the third, father] of the country [---]

(2.a.)[---]b.[---Publius] Valerius Priscus proconsul, employing Popilius Celer his legate [---]

c. ? took the auspices [---] baths [---] d.[---] public[---] j.[---] Lepcitanian [---]

The other fragments are not usefully translatable.

Commentary

Valerius Priscus: PIR V 0116; https://pir.bbaw.de/id/3832

Popilius Celer: PIR P 0839; https://pir.bbaw.de/id/10922

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 361, whence Thomasson, 1996 69b IRT, 2009, 361; Thomasson, 1972 90-92, whence AE 1973.571; Christol–Drew-Bear, 2005 194, whence AE 2005.1663, EDH 030787 ; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. 2.a: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1629 Leica)


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