422. Dedication to Caracalla

Description:
Moulded base of marble (w: 0.75 x h: 1.30 x d: 0.50). Uniform with 392, 403, 434.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a recessed panel (die, w: 0.38 x h: 0.56). The border is cut back to make room for the final letter of l. 1. 
Letters:
Rustic capitals: 0.030-0.025. 
Date:
Between 10 Dec. A.D. 200 - 9 Dec. A.D. 201 (titulature)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Theatre, near the West end of the Orchestra. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Caputo, Epigraphica (Rivista Italiana di Epigrafia), Milano, vol. I, 1939 I:168 ff., fig, 20. 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) M(arco) Aurelio Antonino
Augusto Pio tribuniciae
potestatis IIII proco(n)s(uli)
Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) L(uci) Septimi Seueri
5Pii Pertinacis Augusti
Arabici Adiabenici Par-
thici maximi felicissimi
p(atris) p(atriae) filio
M(arcus) Iunius Punicus proc(urator) sexage-
10narius prouinciae Thraciae
centenarius Alexandriae ad
Mercurium
IMPCAESMAVRELIOANTONINO
AVGVSTOPIOTRIBVNICIAE
POTESTATISIIIIPROCOS
IMPCAESLSEPTIMISEVERI
5PIIPERTINACISAVGVSTI
ARABICIADIABENICIPAR
THICIMAXIMIFELICISSIMI
PPFILIO
MIVNIVSPVNICVSPROCSEXAGE
10NARIVSPROVINCIAETHRACIAE
CENTENARIVSALEXANDRIAEAD
MERCVRIVM
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<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
ari
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arco
</ex>
</expan>
Aurelio
Antonino
<lb n="2" />
Augusto
Pio
tribuniciae
<lb n="3" />
potestatis
<num value="4" >
IIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
proco
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
uli
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratoris
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
aris
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
uci
</ex>
</expan>
Septimi
Seueri
<lb n="5" />
Pii
Pertinacis
Augusti
<lb n="6" />
Arabici
Adiabenici
Par
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
thici
maximi
felicissimi
<lb n="8" />
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atris
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atriae
</ex>
</expan>
filio
<lb n="9" />
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arcus
</ex>
</expan>
Iunius
Punicus
<expan>
<abbr>
proc
</abbr>
<ex>
urator
</ex>
</expan>
sexage
<lb n="10" type="worddiv" />
narius
prouinciae
Thraciae
<lb n="11" />
centenarius
Alexandriae
ad
<lb n="12" />
Mercurium
</ab>

Translation:

To emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus Pius, holding tribunician power for the fourth time, proconsul, son of emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia, most fortunate, father of the country; Marcus Junius Punicus, equestrian imperial agent at a salary of sixty thousand sesterces in charge of the province of Thrace, and at a salary of one hundred thousand in Alexandria, at the Temple of Mercury.

Commentary:

l. 3. trib. pot. IIII. 10 Dec. 200 - 9 Dec. 201

l. 9. M. Iunius Punicus. Also in 392, I. 8; 403, l. 9; 434, l. 7

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1141 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1141 Leica)

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