334. Dedication to Germanicus
- Description:
- Seven damaged blocks of grey limestone, with mouldings top and bottom, one of them an angle-block with mouldings continued on the left-hand face also (lengths varying × 0.51); part of a low rectangular base with sockets on the upper face for a statue or for a group of statuary. a) Five blocks, part of a single text. b) Two blocks, apparently from a duplicate text.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving faces.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals, rather irregular: 0.075-0.09.
- Date:
- c. A.D. 18-19 (titulature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Aurigemma, Afr. Ital, VIII (1940) 27 ff., fig. 14; L'Ann Ep. 1948, 10 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)
Lepcit(ani) publice
Translation:
(a. ) To Germanicus Caesar, son of [Tiberius] Augustus, pontifex, [augur], consul for the second time, acclaimed victor twice, flamen (priest) of Augustus, the Lepcitanians publicly. b.: [·· ? ··] Caesar [·· ? ··] consul for the second time [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
co(n)s(ul) iter(um): From 18.
b: apparently from a duplicate text rather than from a companion base in honour of Drusus, who was not cos. iterum until 21, after the death of Germanicus.
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