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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0374. Fragmentary building inscription under Antoninus Pius

Description: Two fragments of a marble panel: a) w: 0.45 x h: 0.46, upper edge. b) w: 0.14 x h: 0.13, lower edge.
Text: Inscribed within a moulded border.
Letters: Second century CE lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.05; line 2, 4, 5 and 6, 0.045; line 3, 0.04.

Date: CE 138-161. (reign)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio II, Fragment a) is stated by Bartoccini to have been found in the Hadrianic Baths, but it was later stored in the Forum Vetus. Fragment b) was found in the Forum Vetus.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

a
[Imp(eratore) Caesar]e diui Hadriani fil(io) [diui Traiani nepote]
[diui Nerua]e pron(epote) T(ito) Aelio Had[riano Antonino Aug(usto) Pio]
[pontifice ma]ximo tribunicia [potestate ---]
[--- H]aterianus fla[men ---]
5 [--- r]em publica[m ---]
[---]IT[...] pṛ[---]
b
[--- m]armori[bus ---]

Diplomatic

a
[..........]EDIUIHADRIANIFIL[.................]
[.........]EPRONTAELIOHAD[...................]
[...........]XIMOTRIBUNICIA[.........---]
[---.]ATERIANUSFLA[...---]
5[---.]EMPUBLICA[.---]
[---]IT[···]P.[---]
b
[---.]ARMORI[...---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

a.[When emperor Caesar] Titus Aelius Hadrian [Antoninus Augustus Pius], son of deified Hadrian, [grandson of deified Trajan], great grandson [of deified Nerva], chief [priest], was holding tribunician [power for the ? time---] Haterianus (nominative case) flamen (priest)[---] the republic (accusative case)[---]

b.[---] with marbles [---]

Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1929, 90ff; IRT, 1952, 374, whence IRT, 2009, 374, whence EDH 059297; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVI.20)


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