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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0455. Dedication to Gordian III

Description: Rectangular base (w: 0.56 x h: 1.16 x d: 0.62) of coarse brown limestone, badly weathered. .
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.41 x h: 1.02)
Letters: Irregular capitals: 0.04.

Date: CE 238-244 (reign)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, North Portico, near the entrance.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[Imp(eratori)] Caes(ari)
M(arco) Ant[o]nio
Gordiano Pio
Felici Aug[usto]
5 [pontif(ici) m]axịṃo
[trib(unicia) pot(estate)? co](n)s(uli)
[p(atri) p(atriae) proco(n)s(uli) ---] A[..]T
[c. 4]B[---]
------
10 [c. 4]SU[c. 4]
[c. 6]AM[.]
[c. 6]PḶỊ[..]
[c. 7]NU[..]
[------]

Diplomatic

[...]CAES
MANT[.]NIO
GORDIANOPIO
FELICIAUG[....]
5[.......]AX..O
[.........]S
[........---]A[··]T
[····]B[---]
------
10[····]SU[····]
[······]AM[·]
[······]P..[··]
[·······]NU[··]
[------]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To [emperor] Caesar Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius, Felix, Augustus, chief [priest holding tribunician power for the ? time], consul, father of the country, proconsul [---]

Bibliography: Ciotti, 1948 119, n. 25; IRT, 1952, 455, whence IRT, 2009, 455, whence EDH 059358; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 600)