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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1063. Dedication

Description: Fragments of a bronze tablet w: 0.119 x h: 0.095
Text: Incised on the face
Letters: 0.01

Date: 218-222 CE (reign)

Findspot: Bu Njem: in the Fort, at the East gate.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[---]ỊỊỊỊỊỊỊỊ[---]
[---]CT[..]I [---]
[---]ỊỊ( vac. )ỊỊỊLỊỊỊỊỊỊ [---]
[---feli]citer matri exercitus felicit[er---]
5[---]ỊỊỊ( vac. ) IIUIS[---]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[---domi]ni n(ostri) Antonini id(em?) Iuliae id(em?) [---]
[---]OỊỊỊỊỊỊỊỊ[---]

Diplomatic

[---]........[---]
[---]CT[··]I[---]
[---]..      ...L......[---]
[---....]CITERMATRIEXERCITUSFELICIT[..---]
5[---]...      IIUIS[---]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[---....]NINANTONINIIDIULIAEID[---]
[---]O........[---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . with good fortune, mother of the army, with good fortune [ . . .] our lord Antoninus and Julia [ . . .

Commentary

The erasures suggest that Antoninus refers to the emperor Elagabalus (218-222).

Bibliography: Rebuffat, 1967 67-38, p.103, whence AE 1972.682; Rebuffat, 1970a 177-78; whence AE 1976.701; EDH 010009

Images

None available (2021).