373. Dedication to Antoninus Pius

Description:
Part of a marble panel (w: 1.385 x h: 0.53 x d: 0.027, top and bottom edges only survive). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: ll. 1-2, 0.16, l. 3, 0.11. 
Date:
After A.D. 140 (titulature) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Theatre.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Not previously published. 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) 
[Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) T(ito) Aeli]o Hadriano
[Antonino Au]g(usto) Pio ponti[f(ici)]
[max(imo) trib(unicia) pot(estate) [ - - - ] co(n)s(uli) ·]III p(atri) p(atriae) L[epcit]ani [publ(ice)]
[·········]OHADRIANO
[············]GPIOPONTI[······]
[·····]IIIPPL[······]ANI[·····]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
ari
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
T
</abbr>
<ex>
ito
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Aeli
</supplied>
o
Hadriano
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Antonino
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Au
</supplied>
g
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
Pio
<expan>
<abbr>
ponti
<supplied reason="lost" >
f
</supplied>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<ex>
ici
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<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 >
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" extentmax="4" />
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
uli
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<num >
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
III
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atri
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atriae
</ex>
</expan>
L
<supplied reason="lost" >
epcit
</supplied>
ani
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
publ
</abbr>
<ex>
ice
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
</ab>

Translation:

[To emperor Caesar Titus Aeli]us Hadrian [Antoninus] Augustus Pius, [chief] priest, [holding tribunician power for the ? time, consul for] three (? four) times, father of the country, the Lepcitanians [publicly]

Commentary:

l. 3. Cos. III from 1 Jan. 140.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1655)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1655)

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