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397. Dedication to Septimius Severus, Caracalla and Geta

Description:: Semicircular exedra of soft yellow limestone. One block is missing from ll. 1 and 2, and those on the right-hand side of ll. 3 and 4 are badly weathered.
Text:: Inscribed around the inner face. Total length of inscription, 4.80.
Letters:: Rustic capitals: ll. 1-2, 0.07-0.075; l. 3, 0.05; l. 4, 0.04.
Date:: A.D. 209-211 (reign)
Findspot:: Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, standing in front of the Temple of Magna Mater.
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Findspot
Bibliography:: , 128 ff.; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1926:158; Bartoccini, Rivista di Archeologia cristiana della Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia sacra, VIII:24. 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)

Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) L(ucio) Septimio Seu[ero Pio Pertinaci Aug]usto Arabico Adiabenico Parthico m[axi]mo et
Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) M(arco) Aurellio [Antonino August]o et 〚 P(ublio) S[eptimio Getae nobilissim]o [Cae]s(ari)〛 et Iuliae Aug[ustae matri Augustorum]
et cas[t]roru[m ·· ? ··]
M(arcus) [·· c. 12··] Aṣper Aurelianus sacerdotalis prouinciae Africae numini [maiestatique eorum deuotus ·· ? ··]

IMPCAESLSEPTIMIOSEV[······················]VSTOARABICOADIABENICOPARTHICOM[····]MOET
IMPCAESMAVRELLIO[················]OET〚PS[·························]O[····]S〛ETIVLIAEAVG[·······················]
ETCAS[··]RORV[···· ? ··]
M[·· c. 12··]A·PERAVRELIANVSSACERDOTALISPROVINCIAEAFRICAENVMINI[····························· ? ··]

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Imp

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<ex>

eratori

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

Caes

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<ex>

ari

</ex>

</expan>

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<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

ucio

</ex>

</expan>

Septimio

Seu

ero

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Pio

</supplied>

Pertinaci

</supplied>

Aug

</supplied>

usto

Arabico

Adiabenico

Parthico

axi

</supplied>

<expan>

<abbr>

Imp

</abbr>

<ex>

eratori

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

Caes

</abbr>

<ex>

ari

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

arco

</ex>

</expan>

Aurellio

Antonino

</supplied>

August

</supplied>

<del>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

ublio

</ex>

</expan>

eptimio

</supplied>

Getae

</supplied>

nobilissim

</supplied>

<expan>

<abbr>

Cae

</supplied>

</abbr>

<ex>

ari

</ex>

</expan>

</del>

Iuliae

Aug

ustae

</supplied>

matri

</supplied>

Augustorum

</supplied>

cas

</supplied>

roru

</supplied>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

arcus

</ex>

</expan>

</unclear>

per

Aurelianus

sacerdotalis

prouinciae

Africae

numini

maiestatique

</supplied>

eorum

</supplied>

deuotus

</supplied>

</ab>

2, P. Septimius Geta: Erased after damnatio in 212.

Translation:

To Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimus Se[verus Pius Pertinax Aug]ustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia, and to emperor Caesar Marcus Aurellius [Antoninus Augustus] and to Publius S[eptimius Geta most noble] Caesar(erased from Publius - Caesar) and to Julia Augusta [mother of the Augusti] and of the camps [·· ? ··]; Marcus [·· ? ··] Asper Aurelianus, former priest of the cult of the emperor for the province of Africa, [devoted] to [their] divine power and [majesty ·· ? ··]