5. Dedication to the Genius of Augustus
- Description:
- Upper part of a moulded base (width x surviving height x depth w: 0.38 x h: 0.47 x d: 0.35) of coarse grey limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die w: 0.15 x h: 0.28); decorated on two sides with simple scroll and bird ornament. Socket for statue above.
- Letters:
- Third century capitals: 0.035.
- Date:
- Third century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Reg. II: in the open space between ins. 12 and 13
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Sabratha 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Genio
<lb
n="2"
/>
frugi
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
fero
<sic
>
a
</sic>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usti
</ex>
<lb
n="5"
/>
Iunius
<lb
n="6"
/>
Cres
<lb
n="7"
type="worddiv"
/>
c
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
e
</supplied>
n
<unclear
reason=""
>
s
</unclear>
<lb
n="8"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="line"
/>
Translation:
To the fruit-bearing Genius of Augustus; Junius Crescens (gave and dedicated this).
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.VIII.26 (left side))
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVIII.34)
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