WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0453. Dedication to Maximin the younger

Description: Moulded base (w: 0.65 x h: 1.58 x d: 0.58) broken in two pieces, of fine-grained grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.37 x h: 0.92). Uniform with 452.
Letters: Rustic capitals: line 1-4, av. 0.06; line 5-6, av. 0.05.

Date: CE 236 (from 452)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Now in the vaults of the Temple of Rome and Augustus.

Interpretive

⟦((leaf)) C(aio) Iulio
Uero Maximo
nobilissimo Caes(ari)
Lepcitani
5 Septimiani
((leaf)) publice⟧

Diplomatic

CIULIO
UEROMAXIMO
NOBILISSIMOCAES
LEPCITANI
5SEPTIMIANI
PUBLICE⟧

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To Caius Julius Verus Maximus, most noble Caesar; the Septimian Lepcitanians publicly (all erased)

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 453, whence IRT, 2009, 453, whence EDH 059356; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Upper part: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 909)

   Fig. 2. Complete face: Tantillo (2005)