387. Dedication to Septimius Severus
- Description:
- Moulded marble base (w: 0.72 x h: 1.50 x d: 0.62).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.33 x h: 0.59).
- Letters:
- Rustic capitals: l. 1, 0.085; ll. 2-3, 0.055; l. 4, 0.045; remainder, 0.04.
- Date:
- A.D. 197 (titulature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in the cella of the Temple of Liber Pater.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- 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)
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratori
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ari
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ucio
</ex>
Septi
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
mio
Seuero
Pio
<lb
n="3"
/>
Pertinaci
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usto
</ex>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
atri
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
atriae
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
unicia
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
pot
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
estate
</ex>
<num
value="5"
>
V
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uli
</ex>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<num
value="2"
>
II
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratori
</ex>
<num
value="8"
>
VIII
</num>
conser
<lb
n="6"
type="worddiv"
/>
uatori
orbis
ob
pub
<lb
n="7"
type="worddiv"
/>
licam
et
in
se
pri
<lb
n="8"
type="worddiv"
/>
uatam
pietatem
<lb
n="9"
/>
Lepcitani
publice
</ab>
Translation:
To emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, father of the country, holding tribunician power for the fifth time, consul twice, acclaimed victor eight times, saviour of the world, on account of his conscientious treatment of them, in public and in private, the Lepcitanians publicly.
Commentary:
l. 4. trib. pot. V - 10 Dec. 196 - 9 Dec. 197.
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