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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0047. Dedication to Maximinus

Description: Fragment from the right-hand edge of a marble panel (w: 0.12 x h: 0.135 x d: 0.03).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Third century capitals, with traces of red paint: 0.04.

Date: CE 236-238 (reign, titulature)

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio II, Antonine Temple.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Sabratha Museum, inv. no. 215.

Interpretive

[--- Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) C(ai) Iuli Ueri Maxi]mini
[Pii Felicis Aug(usti) pont(ificis) max(imi)] Germ(anici)
[max(imi) Dacici max(imi) Sarmat(ici)] max(imi)
[------]

Diplomatic

[---....................]MINI
[....................]GERM
[..................]MAX
[------]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[--- of Emperor Caesar Caius Julius Verus] Maximinus, [Pius, Felix, Augustus, chief priest,] greatest Victor in Germany, [greatest Victor in Dacia], greatest [Uictor in Sarmatia---]

Commentary

Line 3. Sarmaticus maximus from 236.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 47, whence IRT, 2009, 47, whence EDH 059040; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: 47, 100: Ward-Perkins Archive, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XVIII.20)