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)

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of which the following, found at a place now called Henchir
Adjedj in the neighbourhood of Theveste, is a fair example :1

IMP CAES
M ANTONIO
GORDIANO PIO
FEL AVG ET
TRANQVILLI
NAE SABINAE
AVG EIVS

A far more important dedication is on a slab discovered at
i Bir Haddada, the site of a Roman castellum in the province of
j Mauritania Sitifensis :

1 • O ■ M
CETERISQ • DIS
DEABVSQ • PRO ■ SA
LVTE • ADQ • INCO
LVMITATE - VIC
TORIISQ • D N • SAN
CTISSIMI • IMP • M
ANTONI • GORUIA
NI ■ INVICTI • PII • FE
LICIS • AVG • ET • SABI
NIAE • TRANQVILL
INAE•AVG•CON
IVGI • EIVS • AVG • N • TO
TAQVE • DOMO ■ DIVINA EO
RVM-K-B-D-D-SP

Here we have in a few lines an invocation to Jupiter and all
the gods to protect the Emperor and Empress and their divine
family.2 In some instances the dedications are to the Empress

' °nly, as in the following at Sigus in Numidia, the date being

, A-t>. 242.3 We know little of the career of Sabinia, except that
she was the daughter of a noble Roman named Misitheus (some-
times called Timesicles on account of his Greek extraction), or
Timasitheus, who was entrusted by his youthful son-in-la\v
with the highest duties of the State, and as prefect of the

| Praetorians endeavoured to effect much-needed reforms in that

J Powerful body.

1 C.I.L. No. 10695. Ree- de Const. 1878, p. 32.

C-I.L. No. 8710. Rev. Afriq. 1861, p. 448.
" C./.Z, No. 5701. De la Mare, Explor., tab. 53, n. 3. I.R.A. No. 2467.