Dedication to DomitianJ. 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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ArabicEnglishFrenchGermanAncient GreekTransliterated GreekModern GreekHebrewItalianLatinPunicNative Libyan language in Latin scriptTripolitaniaLibyaLeptis Magna2009-11-04GBFixed image refs2008-09-09ZAconverted using CHET-C2009-05-19RVAdded Figures2009-08-24RVAdded Figures
Description of Monument
Consisting of 65 panels of grey limestone
(together, 35.701.130.15), interrupted by three passages.
The text is repeated in the surviving part of 318(a).
Description of Text
Inscribed on the surviving faces.
Description of Letters
Lapidary capitals l .1, 0.22;
l. 2, 0.16;
l. 3, 0.14
Date
A.D. 92.
(titulature)
Locations
Lepcis Magna:
Theatre - the parapet of the orchestra. Found in fragments and since recomposed in position.
Unknown
Parapet of the orchestra in the Theatre.
Bibliography
N. Degrassi, VII:13ff.;
Caputo, 1939-1941:717-8;
1949:161;
Caputo, XII:86ff., pl. I.
1.When emperor Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus, son of deified Vespasian, chief priest, held tribunician power for the eleventh time, had been acclaimed victor twenty-one times, been consul sixteen times, was perpetual censor and father of the country all erased. 2. Tiberius Claudius Sestius, of the Roman voting tribe Quirina, son of Tiberius Claudius Sestius, prefect in charge of sacred things, flamen priest of deified Vespasian, sufete, perpetual flamen priest, lover of his country, lover of its citizens, adorner of his country, lover of concord, who was the first citizen to whom the city council and the people gave permission to wear a broad purple band at all times, on account of the merits of his ancestors as well as his own. 3. He saw to the making of the base and the altar at his own expense.