<rs type="textType">Dedication</rs> to Marcus AureliusJ. M. ReynoldsJ. B. Ward-Perkins

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Republished from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.

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Description of Monument

Two sections of a marble panel (approx. original width × surviving height 1.160.73).

Description of Text

Inscribed on one face.

Description of Letters

Lapidary capitals: line l, 0.085; line 2, 0.075; line 3, 0.07; lines 4- 6, 0.065; line 8, 0.055.

Date

A.D. 178 (titulature)

Locations

Sabratha: Capitolium, found in the vaults; see note on 1.

Unknown

Findspot

Bibliography

Not previously published.

Text constituted from

Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)

Text Imperatori Caesari Marco Aurelio Antonino Augusto Armeniaco Medico Parthico maximo Germanico Sarmatico pontifici maximo tribunicia potestate XXXII imperatori VIIII consuli III patri patriae diui Antonini Pii filio diui Veri Parthici maximi fratri diui Hadriani nepoti diui Traiani pronepoti diui Neruae abnepoti
Translation

To Emperor Caesar, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, victor in Armenia, victor in Media, greatest victor in Parthia, victor in Germany, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the thirty second time, acclaimed victor nine times, consul three times, father of the country, son of deified Antoninus Pius, brother of deified Verus, greatest victor in Parthia, grandson of deified Hadrian, great grandson of deified Trajan, great great grandson of deified Nerva

Commentary

l. 4. trib. pot. XXXII: 10 Dec. 177 - 9 Dec. 178.

Photographs

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 789 Leica)