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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0376. Dedication to Antoninus Pius

Description: Moulded base (w: 1.00 x h: 1.42 x d: 0.80) of grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.425 x h: 0.50).
Letters: Capitals with some Rustic forms: 0.04.

Date: CE 138-161 (reign)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio V, Theatre, in the centre of the orchestra.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Imp(eratori) Antonino
Aug(usto) Pio
Q(uintus) Pompeius Quir(ina tribu)
Saturninus
5statuam quam
pro honore
aedilitatis pro-
misit posuit

Diplomatic

IMPANTONINO
AUGPIO
QPOMPEIUSQUIR
SATURNINUS
5STATUAMQUAM
PROHONORE
AEDILITATISPRO
MISITPOSUIT

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To emperor Antoninus Augustus Pius; Quintus Pompeius Saturninus, of the Roman voting tribe Quirina, set up the statue which he promised in return for the office of aedile.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 376, whence IRT, 2009, 376, whence EDH 059299; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 903 or 1896 or 1898)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXI.26)