328. Dedication to Gaius Caesar

Description:
Base of grey limestone (w: 0.77 x h: 0.39 x d: 0.44) formerly moulded top and bottom but later mutilated. The whole inscribed surface is badly abraded. Uniform with 320 and thus dated to 3 B.C..  
Text:
Inscribed on one face 
Letters:
Irregular capitals: 0.04. 
Date:
3 B.C. (see 320) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, loose in the Temple of Rome and Augustus. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Not previously published. 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) 
C(aio) [Cae]s[a]ri Augusti f(ilio) co(n)s(uli)
[d]ẹṣ[ig(nato)] [p]oṇt(ifici) princi[pi iu]uentutiṣ
Fuluii Lepc[i]t[a]n[i d(ono) d(ederunt)]
C[····]S[··]RIAVGVSTIFCOS
[··]··[········][··]O·TPRINCI[······]VENTVTI·
FVLVIILEPC[··]T[··]N[······]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
aio
</ex>
</expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Cae
</supplied>
s
<supplied reason="lost" >
a
</supplied>
ri
Augusti
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilio
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
uli
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
d
</supplied>
<unclear reason="" >
es
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ig
</supplied>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<ex>
nato
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
p
</supplied>
o
<unclear reason="" >
n
</unclear>
t
</abbr>
<ex>
ifici
</ex>
</expan>
princi
<supplied reason="lost" >
pi
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
iu
</supplied>
uentuti
<unclear reason="" >
s
</unclear>
<lb n="3" />
Fuluii
Lepc
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
t
<supplied reason="lost" >
a
</supplied>
n
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
ono
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
ederunt
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
</ab>

Translation:

To Caius Caesar, son of Augustus, designated consul, pontifex (priest), chief of the youth; the Fulvii of Lepcis gave this as a gift.

Commentary:

l. 3. Fuluii Lepcitani. Also in 320 , l. 4; see also 596, l. 1.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVII.22)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVII.22)

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