478. Dedication to Arcadius

Description:
Moulded marble base (w: 0.65 x h: 1.45 x d: 0.65). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.24 x h: 0.57); two lines are cut below the die. 
Letters:
Fourth century A.D. capitals: 0.03-0.04. 
Date:
A.D. 383-408 (reign) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, South Portico.  
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) 
Toto orbe
pacifico
consuli
d(omino) n(ostro) Flauio
5Arcadio
Pio Felici
uictori ac
triumfato-
ri semper
10Augusto
Lepcitani deuoti num(ini)
maiestatiq(ue) eius
TOTOORBE
PACIFICO
CONSVLI
DNFLAVIO
5ARCADIO
PIOFELICI
VICTORIAC
TRIVMFATO
RISEMPER
10AVGVSTO
LEPCITANIDEVOTINVM
MAIESTATIQEIVS
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Toto
orbe
<lb n="2" />
pacifico
<lb n="3" />
consuli
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
omino
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
ostro
</ex>
</expan>
Flauio
<lb n="5" />
Arcadio
<lb n="6" />
Pio
Felici
<lb n="7" />
uictori
ac
<lb n="8" />
triumfato
<lb n="9" type="worddiv" />
ri
semper
<lb n="10" />
Augusto
<lb n="11" />
Lepcitani
deuoti
<expan>
<abbr>
num
</abbr>
<ex>
ini
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="12" />
<expan>
<abbr>
maiestatiq
</abbr>
<ex>
ue
</ex>
</expan>
eius
</ab>

Translation:

To one who is a peace-making consul throughout the world, our lord Flavius Arcadius Pius Felix victor and triumphator, always Augustus; the Lepcitanians, devoted to his divine power and majesty, (set this up) .

Commentary:

l. 10. Arcadius: Augustus 383-408.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 584)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 584)

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