Description of Monument
Impression of the left-hand side of a lost marble panel (
1.87
0.90).
Description of Text
Inscribed within a tabella ansata
Description of Letters
Capitals: l.1, 0.10;
l.2, 0.11;
l. 3, 0.13;
ll.4-5, 0.10.
Date
A.D. 180-192
(reign, titulature)
Locations
Lepcis Magna:
Hadrianic Baths, re-used in the late paving of the Caldarium.
Unknown
Findspot
Text constituted from
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
Text
Imperatore
Caesare diui
Marci
filio
Marco Aurelio Commodo
Augusto
m
pontifice
maximo
tribunicia V
Deo Herculi
genio municipii
qu
municipii
mi
Apparatus
Marci
Aureli
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An unusual form. The letters which follow the M are no longer legible.
Presumably Germanico or Sarmatico.
trib. pot. V. So Bartoccini, i.e. from 10 Dec.179. The letters in square brackets are no longer legible
Translation
When the Emperor Caesar, son of the deified Marcus, Marcus Aurelius Commodus Augustus, victor in Germany or victor in Sarmatia was chief priest, holding tribunician power for the fifth or up to the ninth time to the God Hercules, genius of the municipality by decree of the municipality
Photographs
No photographs.