452. Dedication to Maximin

Description:
Moulded base (w: 0.60 x h: 1.58 x d: 0.58), of fine-grained limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.36 x h: 0.95). Uniform with 453. 
Letters:
Rustic capitals 0.035-0.045. 
Date:
A.D. 236 (titulature) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Vaults of the Temple of Rome and Augustus. 
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) 
Imp(eratori)〚 Caes(ari) C(aio) Iulio〛
〚Vero Maximino〛
Pio Felici Aug(usto)
patri patriae
5tribuniciae pot(estatis) II
co(n)s(uli) proconsuli
conseruatori
orbis
Lepcitani
10Septimiani
publice
IMP〚CAESCIVLIO〛
〚VEROMAXIMINO〛
PIOFELICIAVG
PATRIPATRIAE
5TRIBVNICIAEPOTII
COSPROCONSVLI
CONSERVATORI
ORBIS
LEPCITANI
10SEPTIMIANI
PVBLICE
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
<del>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
ari
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
aio
</ex>
</expan>
Iulio
</del>
<lb n="2" />
<del>
Vero
Maximino
</del>
<lb n="3" />
Pio
Felici
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="4" />
patri
patriae
<lb n="5" />
tribuniciae
<expan>
<abbr>
pot
</abbr>
<ex>
estatis
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="2" >
II
</num>
<lb n="6" />
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
uli
</ex>
</expan>
proconsuli
<lb n="7" />
conseruatori
<lb n="8" />
orbis
<lb n="9" />
Lepcitani
<lb n="10" />
Septimiani
<lb n="11" />
publice
</ab>

2, Verus Maximinus: Very lightly erased, after damnatio in 238.

Translation:

To emperor Caesar Caius Julius Verus Maximinus (all erased after emperor) Pius Felix Augustus, father of the country, holding tribunician power for the second time, consul, proconsul, preserver of the world; the Septimian Lepcitanians publicly.

Commentary:

l. 5. trib. pot. II - 10 Dec. 235 - 9 Dec 236.

l. 6. cos. 1 Jan. 236.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 921)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 921)

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