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41. Dedication to the Indulgentia of Severus Alexander

Description:: The upper part of a panel of white marble (w: 1.20 x h: 0.55 x d: 0.02).
Text:: Inscribed on one face.
Letters:: Lapidary capitals: 0.09. Traces of red paint in the letters.
Date:: A.D. 226-227.(titulature)
Findspot:: Sabratha: The North Forum Portico. Re-used, when already broken, as a paving slab in the late IV cent. paving at the W end of the portico, where the impression still survives. See also 23, 27, 43, 95.
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Sabratha Museum.
Bibliography:: Bartoccini, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, Roma (Ministero dell'Africa Italiana), vol. I, 1950 I:54. 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)

Indul]gentiae
〚Imp(eratoris)〛〚[Ca]es(aris) M(arci) Aureli Seueri〛
〚Alexandri Pii Felicis〛
〚A[ugust]i〛 pontif(icis) max(imi)
5[tribun(icia)] [pot]est(ate) ṾI co(n)s(ulis) II p(atris) p(atriae)
[---]

INDV··]GENTIAE
〚IMP〛〚[···]ESMAVRELISEVERI〛
〚ALEXANDRIPIIFELICIS〛
〚A[······]I〛PONTIFMAX
5[·······][····]EST·ICOSIIPP
[---]

<ab>

Indu

<rdg >

</rdg>

</app>

</supplied>

gentiae

<del>

<expan>

<abbr>

Imp

</abbr>

<ex>

eratoris

</ex>

</expan>

</del>

<del>

<expan>

<abbr>

</supplied>

</abbr>

<ex>

aris

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

arci

</ex>

</expan>

Aureli

Seueri

</del>

<del>

Alexandri

Pii

Felicis

</del>

<del>

ugust

</supplied>

</del>

<expan>

<abbr>

pontif

</abbr>

<ex>

icis

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

max

</abbr>

<ex>

imi

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

tribun

</abbr>

<ex>

icia

</ex>

</expan>

</supplied>

<expan>

<abbr>

pot

</supplied>

est

</abbr>

<ex>

ate

</ex>

</expan>

</unclear>

</num>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

ulis

</ex>

</expan>

</num>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

atris

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

atriae

</ex>

</expan>

</ab>

1, INDV: These four letters are now lost, but the impression survives.

2-3, Erased with continuous horizontal strokes after his death in 235.

Translation:

To the indulgent behaviour of the Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander, Pius, Felix, Augustus, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the sixth time, consul twice, father of the country[·· ? ··]