Description: Part of a marble
panel (surviving width w:
0.76 x h:
0.74 x d:
0.02).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Third century capitals: 0.05-0.06.
Date: CE 230-231 (titulature)
Findspot:
Sabratha: Regio I,
the North Forum Portico. Found re-used as a paving slab in the late fourth century paving at the west end of the portico,
where traces of the impression survive. See also 23, 27, 41, 95. N
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Sabratha Museum.
Interpretive
⟦[Imp(eratori) Ca]e(sari) M(arco) Aurelio Se[uero]
[Alexa]ndro Pio Fel(ici) Au[g](usto) pont(ifici)⟧
[max(imo) tri]b(unicia) pot(estate) X co(n)s(uli) III p(atri) p(atriae) p[roco(n)s][(uli)]
[c. 5]tonius Aemilian[us]
5[o]b honorem augurat[us]
praeter (sestertios) X m(ilia) n(ummum) summ[ae]
honorariae et sport[ulas]
decurionibus ob dedic[atio-]
nem datas stat[uit]
Diplomatic
⟦[.....]EMAURELIOSE[....]
[.....]NDROPIOFELAU[.]PONT⟧
[......]BPOTXCOSIIIPPP[....][.]
[·····]TONIUSAEMILIAN[..]
5[.]BHONOREMAUGURAT[..]
PRAETER 𐆘 XMNSUMM[..]
HONORARIAEETSPORT[....]
DECURIONIBUSOBDEDIC[....-]
NEMDATASSTAT[...]
1-2: Erasure with continuous horizontal strokes after his death in 235.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To [Emperor] Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander, Pius, Felix, Augustus, [chief priest], holding tribunician power for
the tenth time, consul for the third time, father of the country, [proconsul; . . . . -]tonius Aemilianus (scil. set this
up) in response to the honour (scil. office) of the augurate, in addition to the payment of ten thousand sesterces for the
office and provision of food boxes to members of the city council on the occasion of the dedication.
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1950, 53.e , whence AE 1950.154 ; IRT, 1952, 43, whence IRT, 2009, 43; from these EDH 021946; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XI.13)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 889 Leica)
