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
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Ti
</abbr>
<ex>
berio
</ex>
</expan>
Claudio
Caesari
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
Germanico
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
ifici
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
<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 value="5" >
V
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="11" >
XI
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atri
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atriae
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
uli
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
desig
</abbr>
<ex>
nato
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="4" >
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.

Commentary:

l. 3. trib. pot. V - 25 Jan. 45 - 24 Jan. 46.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 1090)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 1090)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 1089)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 1089)

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