421. Dedication to Caracalla
- Description:
- Moulded base (w: 0.65 x h: 1.58 x d: 0.66) of brown limestone, the lower part badly damaged.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die w: 0.33 x h: 0.55).
- Letters:
- Rustic capitals: 0.04-0.03.
- Date:
- Between 10 Dec. A.D. 200 - 9 Dec. A.D. 201 (titulature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Theatre, in one of the upper tiers of the cavea.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Aurigemma, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, Roma (Ministero dell'Africa Italiana), vol. I, 1950 I:74. 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)
M(arco) Aurelio
[Anto]nino Aug(usto) Pio
[trib(uniciae) p]otest(atis) IIII pr[o]co(n)s(uli)
[Imp(eratoris) C]aes(aris) L(uci) Septimi Seueri
5[Pii Per]tinacis Aug(usti) Arab(ici)
Ạḍịabe[n]ici Parthici
[ma]ximi felicissimi
p(atris) p(atriae) filio
[Cur]ia Vlpia
10[ex] uoto statuit
[Anto]nino Aug(usto) Pio
[trib(uniciae) p]otest(atis) IIII pr[o]co(n)s(uli)
[Imp(eratoris) C]aes(aris) L(uci) Septimi Seueri
5[Pii Per]tinacis Aug(usti) Arab(ici)
Ạḍịabe[n]ici Parthici
[ma]ximi felicissimi
p(atris) p(atriae) filio
[Cur]ia Vlpia
10[ex] uoto statuit
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Imp
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eratori
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Caes
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ari
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M
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arco
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Aurelio
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Anto
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nino
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Aug
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usto
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Pio
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trib
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uniciae
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p
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otest
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atis
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IIII
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pr
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co
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uli
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Imp
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eratoris
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C
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aes
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aris
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<abbr>
L
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uci
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Septimi
Seueri
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n="5"
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>
Pii
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reason="lost"
>
Per
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tinacis
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<abbr>
Aug
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<ex>
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usti
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<abbr>
Arab
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ici
</ex>
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n="6"
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reason=""
>
Adi
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abe
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reason="lost"
>
n
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ici
Parthici
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n="7"
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<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ma
</supplied>
ximi
felicissimi
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n="8"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
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</expan>
atris
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
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<ex>
</expan>
atriae
</ex>
filio
<lb
n="9"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Cur
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ia
Vlpia
<lb
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<supplied
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>
ex
</supplied>
uoto
statuit
Translation:
To emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius [Anto]ninus Augustus Pius, holding [tribunician] power for the fourth time, proconsul, son of [emperor] Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus [Pius Per]tinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia, most fortunate, father of the country; the [Cur]ia Ulpia set this up [in accordance with] a vow.
Commentary:
l. 3. trib. pot. IIII. 10 Dec. 200 - 9 Dec. 201.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 268 Lastre)
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