Description:
Upper part of a moulded marble base (surviving, w: 0.64 x h: 0.28 x d: 0.25). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face.  
Letters:
Local second to third century capitals: 0.045.  
Date:
A.D. 198-211 (reign). 
Findspot:
Sabratha: Found in the street in front of the Antonine Temple. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
now placed on the wall of the adjacent fountain.  
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) 
[I]mp(eratori) Caesari Imperato-
[r]is Caesaris Luci Septi-
[mi Seueri Pii ·· ? ·· filio ·· ? ··]
[··]MPCAESARIIMPERATO
[··]ISCAESARISLVCISEPTI
[················ ? ·········· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
I
</supplied>
mp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
Caesari
Imperato
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
r
</supplied>
is
Caesaris
Luci
Septi
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
mi
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Seueri
Pii
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
filio
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

To Emperor Caesar, [son of] Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius [Severus Pius] [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.VII.18)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.VII.18)

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