18. Dedication to Antoninus Pius by Sabratha

Description:
Fragment from the lower part of a marble panel (w: 0.17 x h: 0.22 x d: 0.025, no edges surviving).  
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
Second century capitals: lines 3- 4, 0.04; line 5, 0.035; line 6, 0.03.  
Date:
circa A.D. 143 (titulature)  
Findspot:
Sabratha: Office Baths (Reg. V), re-used in the S Caldarium. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
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) 
[Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) diui Hadriani filio]
[diui Traiani P]arthic[i nep(oti)]
[T(ito) Ae]lio
[Hadriano] Anton[ino]
5[Aug(usto) Pio trib(unicia) pot(estate) ·· ? ··]II imp(eratori) II c[o(n)s(uli) - - - p(atri) p(atriae)]
[Sabrathense]s publi[ce]
[·····························]
[·······]ARTHIC[······]
[·····]LIO
[·········]ANTON[····]
5[··············· ? ··]IIIMPIIC[·· - - - ··]
[············]SPVBLI[···]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
ari
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
diui
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Hadriani
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
filio
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
diui
Traiani
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
P
</supplied>
arthic
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
nep
</abbr>
<ex>
oti
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
T
</abbr>
<ex>
ito
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Ae
</supplied>
lio
<lb n="4" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Hadriano
</supplied>
Anton
<supplied reason="lost" >
ino
</supplied>
<lb n="5" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Pio
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
unicia
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
pot
</abbr>
<ex>
estate
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<num >
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="" extentmax="3" />
II
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="2" >
II
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
c
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<abbr>
o
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
uli
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<num >
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" extentmax="4" />
</num>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atri
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atriae
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<lb n="6" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Sabrathense
</supplied>
s
publi
<supplied reason="lost" >
ce
</supplied>
</ab>

Translation:

[To Emperor Caesar, son of deified Hadrian, grandson of deified Trajan, victor] in Parthia, [Titus Ae]lius [Hadrianus] Antoninus [Augustus, Pius, holding tribunician power for the . . . time], acclaimed victor twice, c[onsul . . . times, father of the country]; the people of Sabratha (set this up) publicly.

Commentary:

l. 5. Antoninus Pius was Imp. II c. 143.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XX.11)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XX.11)

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