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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0364. Building? inscription under Hadrian

Description: Part of a panel of cream marble (w: 0.23 x h: 0.21 x d: 0.25, no edges surviving).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.07; line 2-3, 0.055.

Date: CE 117-138 (reign)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio V, Theatre.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[Imp(erator) Caes(ar) diui Trai]ani Pa[rthici filius diui Neruae nep(os)]
[Traian]us Had[rianus Aug(ustus) pont(ifex) max(imus)]
[trib(unicia)] pot(estate) [---]

Diplomatic

[...............]ANIPA[.........................]
[......]USHAD[................]
[....]POT[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[Emperor Caesar] Trajan Hadrian [Augustus, son of the deified] Trajan, victor in Parthia, [grandson of] deified Nerva, [chief priest, holding tribunician ] power for the ? time (at least twice)[---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 364, whence IRT, 2009, 364, whence EDH 059289; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: 614, 364: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 292 Lastre)

   Fig. 2. From left: 364, Unidentified, Unidentified: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1620 Leica)