19. Dedication to Faustina
- Description:
- Fragmentary marble panel (w: 0.70 x h: 0.12).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: 0.09.
- Date:
- A.D. 138-c.141 (after accession, before death of Faustina)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Capitolium: found in the vaults; see note on 1.
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Faustinae
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ustae
</ex>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratoris
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
An
</supplied>
t
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
on
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ini
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Pii
</supplied>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
coniugi
</supplied>
Translation:
To Faustina Augusta, [wife] of Emperor Antoninus [Pius]
Commentary:
Before the death of Faustina in 140/1.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 219)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 219)
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