273. Dedication to divine emperors

Description:
Nine blocks of grey limestone.  
Text:
Inscribed within a moulded border (together, w: 9.56 x h: 0.52 x d: 0.57). 
Letters:
First century A.D. lapidary capitals: l. 1, 0.13; l. 2, 0.12; l. 3, 0.08. 
Date:
42-43 A.D. (prosopography) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: From the frieze of the temple in the portico behind the Theatre 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Now recomposed and standing in the portico. 
Bibliography:
Caputo, Dioniso: Bollettino dell'Instituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico, VII: 93; Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940, VIII:16. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.  
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
Dis Augustis
Q(uintus) Marcius C(aii) f(ilius) Barea co(n)s(ul) XVuir s(acris) f(aciundis) fetialis proco(n)s(ul) II patronus dedicauit
Iddibal Magonis f(ilius) Tapapius Lepcitanus de sua pecunia fecit
DISAVGVSTIS
QMARCIVSCFBAREACOSXVVIRSFFETIALISPROCOSIIPATRONVSDEDICAVIT
IDDIBALMAGONISFTAPAPIVSLEPCITANVSDESVAPECVNIAFECIT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Dis
Augustis
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
uintus
</ex>
</expan>
Marcius
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
aii
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilius
</ex>
</expan>
Barea
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ul
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="15" >
XV
</num>
uir
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
acris
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
aciundis
</ex>
</expan>
fetialis
<expan>
<abbr>
proco
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ul
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="2" >
II
</num>
patronus
dedicauit
<lb n="3" />
Iddibal
Magonis
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilius
</ex>
</expan>
Tapapius
Lepcitanus
de
sua
pecunia
fecit
</ab>

Translation:

To the Augustan gods. Quintus Marcius Barea, son of Caius, consul, member of the commitee of fifteen for sacred rites (at Rome), fetial (Roman priest), proconsul for a second year, patron, dedicated (this); Iddibal Tapapius, son of Mago, of Lepcis, had it built at his own expences.

Commentary:

l. 2. Q. Marcius Barea. Cos. suff. 34, procos. Africae 42, = PW XIV, 1549, no. 37. Not previously known to have been proconsul for two years.

l. 3. Tapapius. For this family see 319 .

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 936 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 936 Leica)

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