460. Dedication to Valerian Caesar

Description:
a) Rectangular base (w: 0.51 x h: 0.94 x d: 0.50) of grey limestone. b) Fragment of a similar base (surviving measurements, w: 0.52 x h: 0.45).  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Late, irregular form of lapidary capitals: 11.1-2, 4-5, 0.055; 1. 3. 0.065: 11. 6-8. 0.065-0.07. 
Date:
A.D. 253-255 (titulature) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Gasr esc-Sciaddad, the mausoleum on the right bank of Wadi Lebdah. a) Found in 1914 about 30m. from the mausoleum, 750m. from the Circus. Probably moved in 1914 to Fort Settimio Severo. Since lost. Not seen. b) Found beside a. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
a) Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 III:82 ff.; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1931:1. b) Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 III:83 ff. 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:
Previous publications 
a
P(ublio) Cornelio Licinio
Valeriano
nobilissimo
5Caes(ari)
Lepcitani
Septimiani
publ(ice)
b
P(ublio) Cọ[rnelio ·· ? ··]
a
PCORNELIO LICINIO
VALERIANO
NOBILISSIMO
5CAES
LEPCITANI
SEPTIMIANI
PVBL
b
PC·[········· ? ··]
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<ab>
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<abbr>
P
</abbr>
<ex>
ublio
</ex>
</expan>
Cornelio
<lb n="2" />
Licinio
<lb n="3" />
Valeriano
<lb n="4" />
nobilissimo
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
ari
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="6" />
Lepcitani
<lb n="7" />
Septimiani
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<expan>
<abbr>
publ
</abbr>
<ex>
ice
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
P
</abbr>
<ex>
ublio
</ex>
</expan>
C
<unclear reason="" >
o
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<supplied reason="lost" >
rnelio
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

(a) To Publius Cornelius Licinius Valerianus, most noble Caesar; the Septimian Lepcitanians (set this up) publicly.

(b) To Publius Cornelius [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

a) l. 5. Valerianus: Caesar 253-255.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. A. 429)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. A. 429)

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