<rs type="textType">Dedication</rs> to Constantine I or II J. 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; with addenda from J. M. Reynolds, Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania: A Supplement, Proceedings of the British School at Rome23 (1955), 124-147.
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Description of Monument
Fragment from the upper part of a marblepanel
(0.500.21).
Description of Text
Inscribed on the panel face.
Description of Letters
Fourth cent. lettering:
0.045-0.03.
Date
A.D. 306-337 or A.D. 337-340 (reign).
Locations
Sabratha:
Capitolium, found in the vaults; see note on 1.
Unknown
Findspot
Bibliography
Attilio Degrassi, , III (1954).
Text constituted from
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
Text
RestitutorioruIEIpublicaeprouidentissimoetgloriosissimoImperatoriCaesariFlauioConstantinoAugustopontificimaximotribuniciapotestate
Apparatus
Restitutori oruis requiei et publicae salutis
There in insufficient room for oruis requiei - 5 letters at the maximum can be restored here.
Perhaps orbis et reipublicae, mis-spelt by an
illiterate craftsman. The reading is certain.
Translation
To the restorer of the world
and of the public affairs, most provident and most glorious
Emperor Caesar Flavius Constantine
Augustus, chief priest, holding tribunician
power for the ? time
Commentary
Constantine the Great, Augustus 306-337, or Constantine II, Caesar 317-337, Augustus 337-340.