398a. Water-pipe stamp of Severan emperors

Description:
Lead water-pipe.  
Text:
Stamped (die, w: 0.40 x h: 0.03).  
Letters:
Irregular lettering: 0.025.  
Date:
A.D. 209-211 (reign)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Nymphaeum, at the head of the Colonnaded Street.  
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) 
Sep(timius) Seuerus M(arcus) Au[r](elius) Anton(inus) P(ublius) Sep(timius) Geta
SEPSEVERVSMAV[··]ANTONPSEPGETA
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Sep
</abbr>
<ex>
timius
</ex>
</expan>
Seuerus
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arcus
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Au
<supplied reason="lost" >
r
</supplied>
</abbr>
<ex>
elius
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Anton
</abbr>
<ex>
inus
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
P
</abbr>
<ex>
ublius
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Sep
</abbr>
<ex>
timius
</ex>
</expan>
Geta
</ab>

Translation:

Septimus Severus, Marcus Aurellius Antoninus, Publius Septimius Geta

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:
none.

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