384. Dedication to Commodus

Description:
Seven fragments, all probably from the same large marble panel (0.03 thick). a) w: 0.26 x h: 0.185, no edges surviving. b) w: 0.195 x h: 0.185, no edges surviving. c) w: 0.11 x h: 0.25, no edges surviving. d) w: 0.13 x h: 0.17, no edges surviving. e) w: 0.12 x h: 0.18, no edges surviving. f) w: 0.15 x h: 0.265, last line of text. g) w: 0.19 x h: 0.175, no edges surviving. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.12-0.13.  
Date:
A.D. 117-192. (reign) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus; g. Found behind the Temple of Rome and Augustus. The exact findspot of the remainder is not recorded.. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum 
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) 
a
[·· ? ·· Anto]nino [·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··] [t]rib(unicia) [pot(estate) ·· ? ··]
c
[·· ? ··] [i]mp(eratori) Ṿ [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]T [·· ? ··]
d
[·· ? ··]CI[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]G[·· ? ··]
e
[·· ? ··]IO[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]A[·· ? ··]
f
[·· ? ··]RI[·· ? ··]
g
[·· ? ··]Ọ Lepc̣[itani ·· ? ··]
a
[·· ? ·······]NINO[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··][··]RIB[······ ? ··]
c
[·· ? ··][··]MP·[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]T[·· ? ··]
d
[·· ? ··]CI[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]G[·· ? ··]
e
[·· ? ··]IO[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]A[·· ? ··]
f
[·· ? ··]RI[·· ? ··]
g
[·· ? ··]·LEP·[········ ? ··]
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Anto
</supplied>
nino
<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" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
t
</supplied>
rib
</abbr>
<ex>
unicia
</ex>
</expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
pot
</abbr>
<ex>
estate
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<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" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
mp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="5" >
<unclear reason="" >
V
</unclear>
</num>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
t
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="d" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
ci
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
g
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="e" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
io
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
a
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="f" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
ri
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="g" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
o
</unclear>
</orig>
Lep
<unclear reason="" >
c
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
itani
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

( a.)[·· ? ··](to ) Antoninus [·· ? ··]

b.[·· ? ··]holding tribunician [power for the ? time·· ? ··]

c. [·· ? ··] acclaimed victor five (or up to nine) times [·· ? ··]

(d, e, f) not usefully translatable.

g.[·· ? ··] the Lepcitanians [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

Presumably Commodus; the style of lettering suggests Caracalla, but he was never imp. V.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIII.19)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIII.19)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XII.5)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XII.5)

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