Description of Monument
Impression left by a fragment of a lost marble panel
(approx. 1.980.83,
when excavated).
With a moulded border top and bottom, reused in the late fourth century
paving at the west end of the North Forum Portico; see also 23,
41, 43, 95.
Description of Text
Originally inscribed on marble. Read by Bartoccini when first excavated; now much deteriorated.
Description of Letters
Capitals: line 1, 0.135; line 2, 0.13; line 3, 0.125; line 4, 0.09.
Date
A.D. 183-184
(titulature)
Locations
Sabratha:
The W end of the North Forum Portico
Unknown
Findspot
Bibliography
Bartoccini, I:53.
Text constituted from
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
Text
Imperatori
Caesari
diui
Marci
Antonini Pii filio
diui Pii
nepoti
diui Hadriani
pronepoti
diui
Traiani
Parthici
maximi
abnepoti
diui Neruae
adnepoti
Marco Aurelio
Commodo
Antonino
Augusto Pio
Sarmatico
Germanico
maximo
pontifici
maximo
tribunicia
potestate
imperatori
VI
consuli
IIII
patri
patriae
The text given is Bartoccini's. The surviving letters were read in 1948 as follows:
Antonini
Pii
filio
diui Traiani
Parthici
abnepoti
Antonino
Augusto
imperatori
VI consuli IIII
Apparatus
So Bartoccini; but see note above, the more usual form.
l. 4. Commodus was cos. IV from 1 Jan. 183;
imp. VI in 183 and imp. VII in 184.
Translation
To Emperor Caesar, son of deified Marcus Antonius Pius, grandson of deified Pius,
great-grandson of deified Hadrian,great-great-grandson of deified Trajan, greatest victor in Parthia,
great-great-great-grandson of deified Nerva, Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus
Augustus, Pius, victor in Sarmatia, greatest victor in Germany, chief priest,
holding tribunician power for the . . . time, acclaimed victor six times, consul for the fourth time, father of the country
Photographs
No photographs.