471. Dedication to Constantius II

Description:
Moulded marble base (w: 0.90 x h: 1.10 x d: 0.55). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.53 x h: 0.36), from which an earlier inscription may have been erased; a formal spray follows the text. 
Letters:
Fourth century A.D. capitals: av. 0.03. 
Date:
A.D. 337-361 (reign) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, North side. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Bersanetti, Epigraphica (Rivista Italiana di Epigrafia), Milano, vol. I, 1939 VII:39; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1947:62. 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) 
Pietate insigni praedito ac legum
omnium iustissimo moderatori
d(omino) n(ostro) Flauio Iulio Constantio uicto-
riosissimo semper Augusto
5Marcus Nicentius u(ir) p(erfectissimus) praeses
prouinciae Tripolitanae dicauit
numini maiestatique eius cum Lepci-
magnensibus deuotus
PIETATEINSIGNIPRAEDITOACLEGVM
OMNIVMIVSTISSIMOMODERATORI
DNFLAVIOIVLIOCONSTANTIOVICTO
RIOSISSIMOSEMPERAVGVSTO
5MARCVSNICENTIVSVPPRAESES
PROVINCIAETRIPOLITANAEDICAVIT
NVMINIMAIESTATIQVEEIVSCVMLEPCI
MAGNENSIBVSDEVOTVS
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<lb n="1" />
Pietate
insigni
praedito
ac
legum
<lb n="2" />
omnium
iustissimo
moderatori
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
omino
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
ostro
</ex>
</expan>
Flauio
Iulio
Constantio
uicto
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
riosissimo
semper
Augusto
<lb n="5" />
Marcus
Nicentius
<expan>
<abbr>
u
</abbr>
<ex>
ir
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
erfectissimus
</ex>
</expan>
praeses
<lb n="6" />
prouinciae
Tripolitanae
dicauit
<lb n="7" />
numini
maiestatique
eius
cum
Lepci
<lb n="8" type="worddiv" />
magnensibus
deuotus
</ab>

Translation:

To one endowed with remarkable piety, and moreover most just moderator of all laws, our lord Flavius Julius Constantius, most victorious, always Augustus; Marcus Nicentius, excellent man (i.e. equestrian) governor of the province of Tripolitania, dedicated (this) along with the Lepcitanians to his divine power and majesty, being devoted (to him).

Commentary:

l. 4. Constantius II: Augustus 337-361.

l. 5. There are two Nicentii known in this period, PW XVII, 172, 1 and 2.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 586)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 586)

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