474. Dedication to Gratian

Description:
Part of a moulded marble base (w: 0.6 x h: 0.86 x d: 0.71, height incomplete), badly mutilated. 
Text:
Re-inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, surviving width w: 0.35 x h: 0.47) from which a previous inscription has been erased. 
Letters:
Fourth century A.D. capitals: 0.04-0.05. 
Date:
367-383 A.D. (reign) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, central area. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Bartoccini, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 II:49; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1929:6 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) 
Domin[o nostro]
Gratiano p̣ṛ[inc(ipi)]
uictori ac tr[ium]-
fatori semper A[ug(usto)]
5Leptitani de[uoti]
numini mai[esta]-
tique eius
DOMIN[·········]
GRATIANO··[········]
VICTORIACTR[····]
FATORISEMPERA[········]
5LEPTITANIDE[·····]
NVMINIMAI[·····]
TIQVEEIVS
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Domin
<supplied reason="lost" >
o
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
nostro
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
Gratiano
<expan>
<abbr>
<unclear reason="" >
pr
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
inc
</supplied>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<ex>
ipi
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
uictori
ac
tr
<supplied reason="lost" >
ium
</supplied>
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
fatori
semper
<expan>
<abbr>
A
<supplied reason="lost" >
ug
</supplied>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<lb n="5" />
Leptitani
de
<supplied reason="lost" >
uoti
</supplied>
<lb n="6" />
numini
mai
<supplied reason="lost" >
esta
</supplied>
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
tique
eius
</ab>

Translation:

To our lord Gratian, emperor, victor and triumphator, always Augustus; the Leptitanians, devoted to his divine power and majesty (set this up).

Commentary:

l. 2. Gratianus: Augustus 367-383.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 754)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 754)

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