348. Fragmentary dedication to Domitian

Description:
Three blocks (lengths varying w: 0.52 x h: 0.55), of compact grey limestone, inscribed on one face with a monumental inscription, moulded at the lower edge. There are sockets for 14 cm. timbers along the back of the upper face. a) 0.82 long b) 0.92 long: c) 1.108 long 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: from top of block, l. 1, 0.075-0.235; l. 2, 0.25-0.39, moulding, 0.405-0.52. 
Date:
A.D. 93-94 (titulature) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, from the architrave of the Flavian Temple, south of the Curia. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, 130; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1926:161. 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) 
a
[·· ? ··]i Vespas[ian ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]diae Piae i[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··] Vespasi[an ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]re sufeta [·· ? ··]
c
[·· ? ·· trib(unicia) pot(estate)] XIII imp(erator-) XX[II ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] (sesterti-) LXXX Q[·· ? ··]
a
[·· ? ··]IVESPAS[······ ? ··]
[·· ? ··]DIAEPIAEI[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··]VESPASI[····· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]RESVFETA[·· ? ··]
c
[·· ? ···········]XIIIIMPXX[····· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] sestertius LXXXQ[·· ? ··]
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
i
Vespas
<supplied reason="lost" >
ian
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
diae
Piae
i
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
Vespasi
<supplied reason="lost" >
an
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
re
sufeta
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="c" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
unicia
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
pot
</abbr>
<ex>
estate
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<num value="13" >
XIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
imp
</abbr>
<ex>
erator
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="22" >
XX
<supplied reason="lost" >
II
</supplied>
</num>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<am>
<g type="sestertius" > </g>
</am>
</abbr>
<ex>
sesterti
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="80" >
LXXX
</num>
<orig >
q
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

a.[·· ? ··] of [·· ? ··] Vespasian [·· ? ··] of [·· ? ··]-dia Pia[·· ? ··]

b.[·· ? ··] Vesapsian (case unknown)[·· ? ··]ris sufete ( both in the ablative case)

c.[·· ? ··holding tribunician power for the] thirteeth time, acclaimed victor twenty-[two times·· ? ··] 80.000 sesterces [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

c) l. 1. trib. pot. XIII - Domitian, 14 Sep 93 - 13 Sep 94.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 243 Lastre)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 243 Lastre)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 244 Lastre)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 244 Lastre)

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