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- Description:
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Inscribed marble architrave blocks
(each originally w: 3.44 x h: 0.88 x d: 0.65).There were
originally 42 blocks, of which 28 survive complete and 11 in part, recomposed by
Caputo.
- Text:
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Inscribed. The text is identical with that of 427 from the exterior of the Basilica.
- Letters:
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Lapidary capitals: 0.27.
- Date:
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A.D. 216
(titulature)
- Findspot:
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Lepcis Magna:
Basilica Severiana. From the lower order of the interior colonnades.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
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P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle
Colonie, 1),
Roma, 1925, 109;
L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des
Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual
supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1926:157;
Guidi,
Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e
d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols.,
Bergamo, 1927-1940 II:231 ff., plates B and C, figs 3, 4;
also, probably,
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VIII:22671 a. 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:
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Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
east
Imperator Caesar Lucius Septimius
[Seuerus Pius]
Pert[inax
Aug(ustus)
Arabicus Adiabenicus Parthicus maximus Brittanicus]
max[imus
pontif]ex maximus
[tribuniciae] potestatis decem et
[o]cties imperator duodecies
co(n)s(ul) ter pater patriae
proco(n)s(ul)
coepit et ex maiore parte [perf]ecit
Imp(erator)
Caes(ar)
di[ui] Se[pti]mi
[S]eueri Pii Arabici Adiabenici
Parth[i]ci max[imi
B]rita[nnici
maximi fil[ius]
west
diui Marci Antonini Pii Germanici Sarmatici
nepos diui Antonini Pii
pronepos diui Hadriani
adnepos diui Traiani Parthici
et divi Neruae adnepos
Imp(erator)
Ca[e]s(ar)
Marcus Aurellius Antoninus Pius
Aug(ustus) Parthicus
max(imus)
Britannicus max[imus
G]ermanicus maximus
pontifex maximus tribuniciae potesta[t]is
dec[e]m nouies imperator
ter co(n)s(ul)
[qu]ater pater pa[triae
pr]oco(n)s(ul)
perfici c[urauit]
east
IMPERATORCAESARLVCIVSSEPTIMIVS[·············]PERT[·········]MAX[············]EXMAXIMVS[············]POTESTATISDECEMET[··]CTIESIMPERATORDVODECIESCOSTERPATERPATRIAEPROCOSCOEPITETEXMAIOREPARTE[·····]ECITIMPCAESDI[···]SE[····]MI[··]EVERIPIIARABICIADIABENICIPARTH[··]CIMAX[······]RITA[·············FIL[····]
west
DIVIMARCIANTONINIPIIGERMANICISARMATICINEPOSDIVIANTONINIPIIPRONEPOSDIVIHADRIANIADNEPOSDIVITRAIANIPARTHICIETDIVINERVAEADNEPOSIMPCA[··]SMARCVSAVRELLIVSANTONINVSPIVSAVGPARTHICVSMAXBRITANNICVSMAX[·······]ERMANICVSMAXIMVSPONTIFEXMAXIMVSTRIBVNICIAEPOTESTA[··]ISDEC[··]MNOVIESIMPERATORTERCOS[···]ATERPATERPA[·········]OCOSPERFICIC[·······]
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Imperator
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Seuerus
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Pert
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inax
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Arabicus
Adiabenicus
Parthicus
maximus
Brittanicus
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pontif
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ex
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tribuniciae
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potestatis
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Pii
Arabici
Adiabenici
Parth
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diui
Marci
Antonini
Pii
Germanici
Sarmatici
nepos
diui
Antonini
Pii
pronepos
diui
Hadriani
adnepos
diui
Traiani
Parthici
et
di
vi
Neruae
adnepos
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<abbr>
Ca
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Marcus
Aurellius
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pater
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triae
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<abbr>
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pr
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oco
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Translation:
The emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius [Severus Pius] Pert [inax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia, greatest victor in Britannia, ] chief priest, [holding tribunician] power for the eighteenth time, acclaimed victor twelve times, consul [three times, father] of the country, proconsul, began and substantially completed (this); emperor Caesar, son of deified Septimius Severus Pius, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia,
greatest victor in Britannia, grandson of deified Marcus Antoninus, victor in Germany, victor in Sarmatia, great grandson
of deified Antoninus Pius, great great grandson of deified Hadrian, great great great grandson of deified Trajan, victor in
Parthia and of deified Nerva, emperor Caesar Marcus Aurellius Antoninus Pius Augustus, greatest victor in Parthia, greatest
victor in Britannia, greatest victor in Germany, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the nineteenth time, acclaimed
victor three times, consul four times, father of the country, proconsul, [arranged] for its completion.
Commentary:
a) trib. pot. XVIII. 10 Dec. 209 - 9 Dec. 210.
b) trib. pot. XVIIII. 10 Dec. 215 - 9 Dec. 216.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 314)
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