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337. Dedication to Claudius

Description:: Low moulded base (w: 0.70 x h: 0.50 x d: 0.50) of grey limestone, one of a series of five uniform bases; see also 326, 327, 333, 340.
Text:: Inscribed on one face.
Letters:: Irregular capitals: ll. 1 and 3, 0.045; l. 2, 0.05; l. 4, 0.035.
Date:: A.D. 45-46 (titulature)
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:33ff., fig. 18; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1948:15. 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) Claudio Caesari Aug(usto)
Germanico pont(ifici)
max(imo) trib(unicia) pot(estate) V imp(eratori) XI p(atri) p(atriae)
co(n)s(uli) desig(nato) IIII

TICLAVDIOCAESARIAVG
GERMANICOPONT
MAXTRIBPOTVIMPXIPP
COSDESIGIIII

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<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

berio

</ex>

</expan>

Claudio

Caesari

<expan>

<abbr>

Aug

</abbr>

<ex>

usto

</ex>

</expan>

Germanico

<expan>

<abbr>

pont

</abbr>

<ex>

ifici

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

max

</abbr>

<ex>

imo

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

trib

</abbr>

<ex>

unicia

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

pot

</abbr>

<ex>

estate

</ex>

</expan>

</num>

<expan>

<abbr>

imp

</abbr>

<ex>

eratori

</ex>

</expan>

</num>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

atri

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

atriae

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

uli

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

desig

</abbr>

<ex>

nato

</ex>

</expan>

IIII

</num>

</ab>

Translation:

To Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the fifth time, acclaimed victor eleven times, father of the country, designated consul for the fourth time.