Dedicatory inscription from the arch of Claudius
Original: 51—52 CE. Plaster cast.
CIL VI 920 = CIL VI 31203 = CIL VI 40416 = ILS 216. Inv. No. MCR 294.Rome, Museum of Roman CivilizationPhoto by Olga Lyubimova

Dedicatory inscription from the arch of Claudius.

Original: 51—52 CE. Plaster cast.
CIL VI 920 = CIL VI 31203 = CIL VI 40416 = ILS 216.
Inv. No. MCR 294.

Rome, Museum of Roman Civilization
(Roma, Museo della civiltà romana).

Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo dei Conservatori.
Origin:
Original is found in Rome, near tha Arch of Claudius on via Lata (now via del Corso). Present location: Capitoline Museums, Rome.
Description:
CIL VI 920 = CIL VI 31203 = CIL VI 40416 = ILS 216.

Tiberio Claudio Drusi filio Caisari / Augusto Germanico / pontifici maximo tribunicia potestate XI / consuli V imperatori XXII? censori patri patriai / senatus populusque Romanus quod / reges Britannorum XI diebus paucis sine / ulla iactura devicerit et regna eorum / gentesque barbaras trans Oceanum sitas / primus in dicionem populi Romani redegerit

To Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, the son of Drusus, pontifex maximus, holding the tribunician power for the 11th time, consul for the 5th time, imperator for the 22nd (?) time, censor, the father of the fatherland, from the senate and Roman people because he has conquered eleven Britain kings in few days without any losses and have been the first to transfer their kingdoms and the barbarous peoples situated beyond the Ocean into the power of the Roman people.

Credits:
(сс) 2009. Photo, translation: Olga Lyubimova (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Text of the description: museum label.
Text of the inscription: Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby
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