417. Dedication to Septimia Octavilla

Description:
Rectangular base (w: 0.52 x h: 0.83 x d: 0.50) of brown limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.34 x h: 0.62). 
Letters:
Rustic capitals: 0.05-0.045. 
Date:
A.D. 198-210 (titulature) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Theatre, at the foot of the central stair, near 541. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Aurigemma, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, Roma (Ministero dell'Africa Italiana), vol. I, 1950 I (1950) 73; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1950:161. 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) 
Septimiae Octauillae
sorori
Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) L(uci) Septimi
Seueri Pii Pertina-
5cis Aug(usti) Arab(ici) Adiab(enici)
Par[t]hici max(imi)
c(larissimae) m(emoriae) f(eminae)
Curiae tres Iulia et
Germanica et
10Marciana posuer(unt)
SEPTIMIAEOCTAVILLAE
SORORI
IMPCAESLSEPTIMI
SEVERIPIIPERTINA
5CISAVGARABADIAB
PAR[··]HICIMAX
CMF
CVRIAETRESIVLIAET
GERMANICAET
10MARCIANAPOSVER
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Septimiae
Octauillae
<lb n="2" />
sorori
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratoris
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
aris
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
uci
</ex>
</expan>
Septimi
<lb n="4" />
Seueri
Pii
Pertina
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
cis
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Arab
</abbr>
<ex>
ici
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Adiab
</abbr>
<ex>
enici
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="6" />
Par
<supplied reason="lost" >
t
</supplied>
hici
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
imi
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="7" />
<expan>
<abbr>
c
</abbr>
<ex>
larissimae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
emoriae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
eminae
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="8" />
Curiae
tres
Iulia
et
<lb n="9" />
Germanica
et
<lb n="10" />
Marciana
<expan>
<abbr>
posuer
</abbr>
<ex>
unt
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

To Septimia Octavilla, sister of emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia, a woman (of senatorial rank); the three Curiae, Julia, Germanica and Marciana, set this up.

Commentary:

l. 6. Parthicus maximus from 198.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 287 Lastre)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 287 Lastre)

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