400. Posthumous dedication to Septimius Severus
- Description:
- Part of a polygonal marble base (width incomplete; w: 0.40 x h: 0.25 x d: 0.35), uniform with 404 and 429.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face with traces of a moulding above and below.
- Letters:
- Rustic capitals: 0.025.
- Date:
- A.D. 216 (titulature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Severan Basilica found built into the steps of the South apse.
- 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"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Diuo
</supplied>
Seuero
patri
<lb
n="2"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Imper
</supplied>
atoris
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
aris
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
arci
</ex>
Aurelli
Antonini
Pii
Felicis
<lb
n="3"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usti
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
P
</supplied>
arthici
maximi
Brittanici
maximi
Germanici
<lb
n="4"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
maximi
</supplied>
pontificis
maximi
tribuniciae
potest
<lb
n="5"
type="worddiv"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
atis
</supplied>
<num
value="19"
>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
X
</supplied>
VIII
</num>
imperatori
<num
value="3"
>
III
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ulis
</ex>
<num
value="4"
>
IIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
atris
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
atriae
</ex>
<note>
sic
</note>
<lb
n="6"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Le
</supplied>
pcitani
Septimiani
</ab>
Translation:
To [deified] Severus, father of Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurellius Antoninus Pius Felix [Augustus], greatest victor in Parthia, greatest victor in Brittania, [greatest] victor in Germany, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the nineteenth time, acclaimed victor three times, consul four times, father of the country, the Septimian Lepcitanians.
Commentary:
ll. 4-5. trib. pot. XVIIII - 10 Dec. 215 - 9 Dec. 216.
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