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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1026. Dedication to Gallienus

Description: Limestone cippus, broken above w: 0.60 x h: 1.11 x d: 0.57
Text: Inscribed on the face, die w: 0.305 x h: 0.425
Letters: 0.05

Date: 267-268 CE: GODOT (internal date)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: in the Unfinished Baths.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

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Germanico maximo
trib(unicia) pot(estate) XVI imp(eratori)
XV co(n)s(uli) VII p(atri) p(atriae) proco(n)s(uli)
C(aius) Seruilius Marsus
5co(n)s(ul) cur(ator) rei p(ublicae) reg(ionis)
Tripolitanae deuotus
numini maiestati-
que eius

Diplomatic

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GERMANICOMAXIMO
TRIBPOTXVIIMP
XVCOSVIIPPPROCOS
CSERUILIUSMARSUS
5COSCURREIPREG
TRIPOLITANAEDEUOTUS
NUMINIMAIESTATI
QUEEIUS

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

[For Emperor Gallienus . . . ] greatest victor in Germany, holding tribunician power for the sixteenth time, acclaimed victor twelve times, consul seven times, father of the country, proconsul: Caius Servilius Marsus consul, curator of the Tripolitanian region, devoted to his divine power and majesty.

Commentary

C. Servilius Marsus: PLRE I, Marsus 2; RE (1974), Servilius 68b, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/12328

Bibliography: Vitucci, 1959 , whence AE 1959.271, EDH 019444

Images

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