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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0373. Dedication to Antoninus Pius

Description: Part of a marble panel (w: 1.385 x h: 0.53 x d: 0.027, top and bottom edges only survive).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: lines 1-2, 0.16, line 3, 0.11.

Date: CE 140-161 (titulature)

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

Interpretive

[Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) T(ito) Aeli]o Hadriano
[Antonino Au]g(usto) Pio ponti[f(ici)]
[max(imo) trib(unicia) pot(estate) c. 4 co(n)s(uli) .]III p(atri) p(atriae) L[epcit]ani [publ(ice)]

Diplomatic

[............]OHADRIANO
[..........]GPIOPONTI[.]
[..........····...·]IIIPPL[.....]ANI[....]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[To emperor Caesar Titus Aeli]us Hadrian [Antoninus] Augustus Pius, [chief] priest, [holding tribunician power for the ? time, consul for] three (? four) times, father of the country, the Lepcitanians [publicly]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 373, whence IRT, 2009, 373, whence EDH 059296; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1655)


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