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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1021. Dedication to Victoria

Description: Limestone statue-base w: 0.57 x h: 0.69 x d: 0.32
Text: Inscribed within a moulded panel, w: 0.42 x h: 0.55
Letters: No measurements; standard forms

Date: 24 CE (prosopography)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Harbour, reused in the fortification of the Lighthouse; found in 1958.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1958)

Interpretive

Uictoriae
[A]u[gu]ṣṭae
P(ublius) ((stop)) Cornelius
Dolabella ((stop)) co(n)s(ul) ((stop))
5VIIuir ep[ul](onum) ((stop)) so-
da[li]s [Ti]ṭ[iens(is)] ((stop)) pro-
co(n)s(ul) ((stop)) ọc̣ciso T[acfa-]
rịṇạte pọ[suit]

Diplomatic

UICTORIAE
[.]U[..]..AE
P CORNELIUS
DOLABELLA COS
5VIIUIREP[..] SO
DA[..]S[..].[.....] PRO
COS ..CISOT[....-]
R...TEP.[....]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

For Victoria Augusta: Publius Cornelius Dolabella, consul, member of the committee of seven for sacred feasts, companion of the Titienses, procpnsul, when Tacfarinas had been killed, placed (scil. this monument).

Commentary

P. Cornelius Dolabella: PIR C 1348, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/4860

Tacfarinas: PIR T 0003, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/12869

Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1958 , AE 1961.107, cf. AE 1964, page 19, EDH 017791

Images

None available (2021).