10. Dedications to Jupiter by Aemilius Aristides
- Description:
- Two identical moulded stelae of marble (w: 0.37 x h: 1.53 x d: 0.30).
- Text:
- Each stela inscribed on one face (die, w: 0.30 x h: 1.00). The first line is cut above the die.
- Letters:
- Mannered capitals with some Rustic forms: line 1, 0.08; remainder, 0.07.
- Date:
- Second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Capitolium, found in the vaults; see note on 1.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Bartoccini, Rivista della Tripolitania (Rivista a cura dell'Ufficio di Colonizzazione del Governo della Tripolitania), 2 vols., Roma, 1924-5; a third vol., under the title Libya, published for the Ministero delle Colonie, was issued in 1927, I:289. 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"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
I
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
oui
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
O
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ptimo
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
aximo
</ex>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uintus
</ex>
Aemilius
<lb
n="3"
/>
Aristides
<lb
n="4"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
iurid
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
icus
</ex>
per
<lb
n="5"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Alexandr
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
iam
</ex>
Translation:
To Jupiter best and greatest; Quintus Aemilius Aristides, (Roman) judge in the territory of Alexandria (gave and dedicated this)
Commentary:
On Q. Aemilius Aristides see PIR2 A 334.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B 815)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 759 bis Leica)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
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