Dedication to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius VerusJ. M. ReynoldsJ. B. Ward-Perkins
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Republished from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British
School at Rome, 1952.
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Description of Monument
Three marblearchitrave blocks
(0.66 high) from the
monumental inscription of the entablature of
the Antonine Temple. Two of the blocks, from the angles of the building, are substantially complete.
The third is fragmentary.
Description of Text
Inscribed on the face.
Description of Letters
Lapidary capitals line 1, 0.13;
line 2, 0.105;
lines 3-4, 0.095.
Date
A.D. 166-169
(titulature)
Locations
Sabratha:
Antonine Temple
Unknown
Findspot
Bibliography
Not previously published.
Text constituted from
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
Text
ImperatoriCaesariMarcoAurelioAntoninoAugustoArmeniacoParthicomaximoMedicopontificimaximotribuniciapotestateimperatoriconsulietImperatoriCaesariLucioAurelioVeroAugustoArmeniacoParthicomaximoMedicopontificimaximotribuniciapotestateimperatoriconsulidiuiPiifiliisdiuiHadrianinepotibusdiuiTraianiParthicipronepotibusdiuiNeruaeabnepotibusManiusAciliusGlabrio
Apparatus
Augusto Armeniaco Parthico maximo Medico The length of the line which can be calculated from the position of the blocks,
necessitates the inclusion of these titles.
Augusto Armeniaco Parthico maximo Medico The length of the line which can be calculated from the position of the blocks,
necessitates the inclusion of these titles.
Translation
To Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, victor in Armenia, greatest
victor in Parthia, victor in Media, high priest, holding Tribunician power for the . . . time, acclaimed
victor . . . times, consul for the
. . . time, and to Emperor Caesar Lucius Aurelius Verus Augustus,
victor in Armenia, greatest victor in Parthia, victor in Media, holding tribunician power for the . . .
time, accaimed victor . . . times, consul for the . . .
time, sons of deified Pius, grandsons of deified Hadrian, great grandsons
of deified Trajan, victor in Parthia, great great grandsons of deified Nerva . . . ;
Manius Acilius Glabrio . . .
Commentary
l. 4. Manius Acilius Glabrio was Cos. ord. 152 = PIR A 73.
Presumably procos. Africae, though nowhere so attested.
The inscription belongs between the middle of 166 and the death of L. Verus in 169.