Graham, Alexander: Roman Africa: an outline of the history of the Roman occupation of North Africa ; based chiefly upon inscriptions and monumental remains in that country (London [u.a.], 1902)

Roman Africa

IMP • CAES • M • AVRELIO ■ ANT.......

TRIB • POT ■ XVIII ■ COS III ■ P • P • ET IMP . . .
ARMENIACO . AVG ■ IMP ■ Tl ■ TRIB ■ POT ■ ITT1

Imperatori Ccesari Marco Aurelio Anto7ii?io Augusto, Pontifici Maximo,
Imperatori II. tribunicia potestate XVIII. Consult III. patri patrice, et
Imperatori Ccesari Lucio Aurelio Vero Armeniaco Augusto, Imperatori II,
tribunicia potestate IIII, consult II. Respublica Verecundensium decreto
decurionum, pecunia publica.

Another inscription bearing the full title, but somewhat
illegible, may be seen on the attic of a triumphal arch also at
Verecunda, and runs as follows, according to Leon Renier's
interpretation :1

.....RELIO • ANTONINO • AVG.....

.....THIC • GERM • MAX ■ P • M ■ TRIB • POT ■ XXVI ■

DIVO■VERO
ROCOS • DIVI • VERI ■ PART ■ MAX ■ FRATRI ■ AVG
AN • NEPOTI • DIVI ■ TRAIAN ■ PARTHIC ■ PRO • NEP ■ DIVI •

NERY•AB•NEP
MACER • SATVRNINVS ■ LEG ■ AVG • PR • PR ■ PATRON ■ DEDI-

CAVIT • D • D • P • P.

Imperatori Ccesari Marco Aurelio Antonino Augusto Armeniaco,
Parthico, Germanico, Maximo, Pontifici Maximo, tribunicia potestate XXVI
Imperatori VI, Consult III, Proconsuli, divi Veri Parthici Maximi fratri,
divi Antoni)tiPii filio, diviHadrianinepoti, divi Traiani Parthicipro?iepoti,
divi Nerves abtiepoti, Respublica Verecundensium, Marcus JEmilius Macer
Saturninus, legatus Augusti pro pratore, patronus, dedicavit decreto de-
curionum, pecunia publica.

Among other inscriptions worthy of notice there is one still
to be seen on the frieze stones of a temple at Lambaesis (Lam-
bessa) dedicated to yEsculapius and Health. It runs thus :

AESCVLAPIO ET SALVTI
IMP • CAES • M • AVRELIVS ■ ANTONINVS ■ AVG ■ PONT ■
MAX • ET

IMP • CAES • L • AVRELIVS • VERVS ■ AVGVSTVS

This temple appears to have been commenced in the time
of Hadrian, and was built, as another inscription informs us,
by the third Augustan legion quartered in that town. It is fair

1 I.R.A. No. 1419.