401. Posthumous dedication to Septimius Severus

Description:
Moulded base (w: 1.15 x h: 1.18 x d: 1.46) of brown limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Rustic capitals: l. 1, 0.115; l. 2, 0.11; l. 3, 0.10; l. 4. 0.105; I. 5, 0.08. 
Date:
After A.D. 211 (deification of Severus) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, found built into the East wall of the Baptistry. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, 130; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1926:160; Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 III:77 ff. 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) 
Diuo Pio
Seuero Aug(usto)
Q(uintus) Marcius Dioga
praef(ectus) annona[e]
5sacrae uṛ[bi]s
DIVOPIO
SEVEROAVG
QMARCIVSDIOGA
PRAEFANNONA[··]
5SACRAEV·[···]S
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Diuo
Pio
<lb n="2" />
Seuero
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
uintus
</ex>
</expan>
Marcius
Dioga
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
praef
</abbr>
<ex>
ectus
</ex>
</expan>
annona
<supplied reason="lost" >
e
</supplied>
<lb n="5" />
sacrae
u
<unclear reason="" >
r
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
bi
</supplied>
s
</ab>

Translation:

To deified Pius Severus Augustus, Quintus Marcius Dioga, in charge of the corn supply of the sacred city (Rome)

Commentary:

l. 3. Quintus Marcius Dioga is attested in PW XIV, 1557, no. 56.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XII.23)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XII.23)

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