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363. Dedication to Hadrian

Description:: Four blocks (lengths, a) and b) together 2.00; c) 1.07; d) 0.62; each × w: x h: 0.50 x d: 0.54) of grey limestone.
Text:: Inscribed on one face.
Letters:: Lapidary capitals: 0.09
Date:: A.D. 128-138 (titulature, reign)
Findspot:: Lepcis Magna: Regio IV, ins. 1. From a monumental inscription in the building on the West corner
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: opposite the Chalcidicum.
Bibliography:: A. Degrassi, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, Roma (Ministero dell'Africa Italiana), vol. I, 1950, III; Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VIII:22670(blocks c) and d) only). This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952; including revisions from J. M. Reynolds, 'Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania: A Supplement', Proceedings of the British School at Rome 23 (1955), 124-147
Text constituted from:: Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)

[Imp(eratori) Caesari diui Trai]ani Parthici f(ilio) diui Nerụ[ae nep(oti) Traia]no [Hadria]no Aug(usto) [pont(ifici) max(imo)]
[trib(unicia) pot(estate) - - - ]II co(n)s(uli) III p(atri) p(atriae) Aẹṃilia Iou[ina ··] suo et p̣[·· c. 9··]

[·········]ANIPARTHICIFDIVINER·[·············]NO[·······]NOAVG[·····]
[····· - - - ]IICOSIIIPPA··ILIAIOV[······]SVOET·[·· c. 9··]

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<expan>

<abbr>

Imp

</abbr>

<ex>

eratori

</ex>

</expan>

Caesari

diui

</supplied>

Trai

</supplied>

ani

Parthici

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

ilio

</ex>

</expan>

diui

Ner

</unclear>

</supplied>

<expan>

<abbr>

nep

</abbr>

<ex>

oti

</ex>

</expan>

</supplied>

Traia

</supplied>

Hadria

</supplied>

<expan>

<abbr>

Aug

</abbr>

<ex>

usto

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

pont

</abbr>

<ex>

ifici

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

max

</abbr>

<ex>

imo

</ex>

</expan>

</supplied>

<expan>

<abbr>

trib

</abbr>

<ex>

unicia

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

pot

</abbr>

<ex>

estate

</ex>

</expan>

</supplied>

<num >

</num>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

uli

</ex>

</expan>

III

</num>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

atri

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

atriae

</ex>

</expan>

</unclear>

ilia

Iou

ina

</supplied>

suo

</unclear>

</ab>

2, Perhaps in suo et pecunia sua, see 314, ll. 1- 2.

2, Aemilia Iou[ina nomine] suo et p[atris·· ? ··] or P[·· ? ··]., Degrassi

Translation:

[To emperor Caesar Traj]an son of [deified Traj]an victor in Parthia, [grandson] of deified Nerva, [holding tribunician power] for the [·· ? ··] time, consul three times, father of the country; Aemilia Iou[ina ?on] her own (?land) and [with her own money·· ? ··]