456. Dedication to Gallienus and Salonina

Description:
Panel (w: 0.99 x h: 0.37) of cream marble. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Late form of Rustic capitals: 0.04-0.05. 
Date:
A.D. 265 (titulature) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: From the Forum Severianum 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum. 
Bibliography:
Goodchild, Reports and Monographs of the Department of Antiquities in Tripolitania, Tripoli, vol. I, 1948 II:31; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1950:208; A. Degrassi, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, Roma (Ministero dell'Africa Italiana), vol. I, 1950, III (1954). 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) Caes(ari) P(ublio) Licinio Gallieno Germanico Pio Fel(ici) Aug(usto) pont(ifici) max(imo)
Germanico max(imo) trib(unicia) pot(estate) XIII imp(eratori) XII co(n)s(uli) VI p(atri) p(atriae) proco(n)s(uli) et
Corneliae Saloninae sanctissimae Augustae n(ostrae)
coniugi Gallieni Aug(usti) n(ostri)
5 Lepc(itani) Sept(imiani) Saloniniani publ(ice)
IMPCAESPLICINIOGALLIENOGERMANICOPIOFELAVGPONTMAX
GERMANICOMAXTRIBPOTXIIIIMPXIICOSVIPPPROCOSET
CORNELIAESALONINAESANCTISSIMAEAVGVSTAEN
CONIVGIGALLIENIAVGN
5LEPCSEPTSALONINIANIPVBL
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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>
P
</abbr>
<ex>
ublio
</ex>
</expan>
Licinio
Gallieno
Germanico
Pio
<expan>
<abbr>
Fel
</abbr>
<ex>
ici
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
ifici
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
imo
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
Germanico
<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 value="13" >
XIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="12" >
XII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
uli
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="6" >
VI
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atri
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atriae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
proco
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
uli
</ex>
</expan>
et
<lb n="3" />
Corneliae
Saloninae
sanctissimae
Augustae
<expan>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
ostrae
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="4" />
coniugi
Gallieni
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
ostri
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Lepc
</abbr>
<ex>
itani
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Sept
</abbr>
<ex>
imiani
</ex>
</expan>
Saloniniani
<expan>
<abbr>
publ
</abbr>
<ex>
ice
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

4, Degrassi notes correctly that, as printed in IRT, this line was omitted after l.3.

Translation:

To emperor Caesar Publius Licinius Gallienus, victor in Germany, Pius, Felix, Augustus, chief priest, greatest victor in Germany, holding tribunician power for the thirteenth time, acclaimed victor twelve times, consul six times, father of the country, proconsul, and to Cornelia Salonina our most virtuous Augusta, wife of Gallienus, our Augustus; the Lepcitanians Septimian and Saloninian (set this up) publicly.

Commentary:

l. 2. trib. pot. XIII - 10 Dec. 264 - 9 Dec. 265.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1562 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1562 Leica)

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