380. Dedication to Faustina

Description:
Elaborate marble console (w: 0.71 x h: 0.43 x d: 1.49, projection 0.60); the left-hand margin and left side appear to have been burned. 
Text:
Inscribed on the front upper border. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: 0.05. 
Date:
After 161 A.D (deification of Faustina)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in the Temple of Liber Pater.  
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) 
Ḍịuae Faustinae Lep(citani) p(ublice)
··VAEFAVSTINAELEPP
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<unclear reason="" >
Di
</unclear>
uae
Faustinae
<expan>
<abbr>
Lep
</abbr>
<ex>
citani
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
ublice
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

To deified Faustina, the Lepcitanians publicly.

Commentary:

l. 1. Diva Faustina. PIR(2) A 715 or 716.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 49.III.8)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 49.III.8)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (AM Crown Copyright reserved)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (AM Crown Copyright reserved)

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