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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1014. Building dedication for the Circus

Description: Fragmentary paving-stones of Pentelic marble: average h: 50.5 - 54 x d: 0.12-0.13
Text: Inscribed
Letters: 0.22

Date: 10 December 161-9 December 162 CE: GODOT (internal date)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Road from the Circus to the Port, some in the Circus some reused in the fortification of the Amphitheatre.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Imp(eratore) Caesare M(arco) Aur[e] | lio Antonịno Aug(usto) p | ont(ifice) max(imo) trib(unicia) po | t(estate) XVI co(n)s(ule) III | et Imp(eratore) Caesa[re L(ucio) Aurelio U]ero A | [u]g(usto) pont(ifice) trib(unicia) | pot(estate) II co(n)[s](ule) [II] [di]ui An[t]oniṇi [Pii fi]ḷ | iis diui Ha | driani nepotibus diui Traịạ[n]ị P̣ạṛṭ[hici pronepotibus ---]
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Diplomatic

IMPCAESAREMAUR[.] | LIOANTON.NOAUGP | ONTMAXTRIBPO | TXVICOSIII | ETIMPCAESA[...........]EROA | [.]GPONTTRIB | POTIICO[.....]UIAN[.]ONI.I[.....]. | IISDIUIHA | DRIANINEPOTIBUSDIUITRA..[.].....[................---]
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English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

In the time of Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the sixteenth time, consul for the third time, and Emperor Caesar Lucius Aurelius Verus Augustus, priest, holding tribunician power for the second time, consul for the second time, sons of deified Antoninus Pius, grandsons of deified Hadrian, [great grandsons] of deified Trajan, victor in Parthia [ . . .

Bibliography: Di Vita-Évrard, 1965 29-32, whence AE 1968.550, EDH 015593

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