371. Fragmentary ?building inscription under Antoninus Pius

Description:
Four fragments of a panel of white marble. 
Text:
Inscribed within a tabella ansata (w: 0.53 x h: 0.48. top left-hand corner; w: 0.57 x h: 0.48, top right-hand corner, w: 0.88 x h: 0.22, bottom left-hand corner; w: 0.22 x h: 0.16, no edges surviving). 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: l. 1, 0.115; l. 2, 0.075; l.3. 0.12; last line 0.085. 
Date:
A.D. 153 (titulature) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: The three first were found in the Forum Vetus, in the Temple of Liber Pater; the findspot of the fourth is not recorded. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum. 
Bibliography:
Relazioni Scavi (weekly reports filed in the Archives of the Superintendency of Antiquities, Tripoli) 27.5.34. 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) 
a
Imp(eratore) Caes(are) [T(ito) Aelio] Hadr[iano Antoni]no Aug(usto) Pio po[nt(ifice) max(imo)]
[trib(unicia)] [p]ot(estate) XVI i[mp(eratore) II co(n)s(ule) II]II p(atre) p(atriae)
[·· ? ··] Aug̣[·· ? ··]
b
Calpurnia Q(uinti) f(ilia) [·· ? ··]
a
IMPCAES[··]HADR[············]NOAVGPIOPO[·············]
[·····][··]OTXVII[·················]IIPP
[·· ? ··]AV·[·· ? ··]
b
CALPVRNIAQF[·· ? ··]
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratore
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
are
</ex>
</expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
T
</abbr>
<ex>
ito
</ex>
</expan>
Aelio
</supplied>
Hadr
<supplied reason="lost" >
iano
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Antoni
</supplied>
no
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
Pio
<expan>
<abbr>
po
<supplied reason="lost" >
nt
</supplied>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<ex>
ifice
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
imo
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
unicia
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
p
</supplied>
ot
</abbr>
<ex>
estate
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="16" >
XVI
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
i
<supplied reason="lost" >
mp
</supplied>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<ex>
eratore
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<num value="2" >
II
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ule
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<num value="4" >
<supplied reason="lost" >
II
</supplied>
II
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atre
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atriae
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
Au
<unclear reason="" >
g
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Calpurnia
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
uinti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilia
</ex>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

a. When emperor Caesar [Titus Aelius] Hadrian [Antoninus] Augustus Pius [was chief priest, holding tribunician] power for the sixteenth time, [acclaimed victor twice, consul] four times, father of the country,[·· ? ··]

( b.) Calpurnia, daughter of Quintus [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

a) l. 2. trib. pot. XVI - 10 Dec 152 - 9 Dec 153.

b) l. 1. Probably Calpurnia Honesta, recorded in 370 as responsible for building a temple in honour of Antoninus Pius, dedicated in 153.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.24)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.24)

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