333. Dedication to Tiberius

Description:
Low moulded base (w: 0.70 x h: 0.45 x d: 0.50) of grey limestone. One of a series of five uniform bases; see also 326, 327, 337, 340. Dated by 337 in 45-46. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Irregular capitals: 0.05. 
Date:
A.D. 45-46 (see 337) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, behind the Temple of Rome and Augustus.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 VIII:32ff., fig. 17; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1948:14 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) 
Ti(berio) Caesari diui Aug(usti)
f(ilio) Augusto
TICAESARIDIVIAVG
FAVGVSTO
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Ti
</abbr>
<ex>
berio
</ex>
</expan>
Caesari
diui
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilio
</ex>
</expan>
Augusto
</ab>

Translation:

To Tiberius Caesar Augustus, son of deified Augustus.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 941)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 941)

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