- Description:
-
17 fragments (the largest
w: 0.18 x h: 0.13, no edges surviving)
all probably from the same marble panel
( x d: 0.02-0.023 thick).
- Text:
-
Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
-
Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.07.
- Date:
-
A.D. 198-210
(reign)
- Findspot:
-
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- 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)
a
[·· ? ··]ṣṭo [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··〚··〛·· ? ··]
bcde
[·· ? ··]nic[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··〚···〛·· ? ··]
fg
[·· ? ··]ṃo
〚[·〛·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··〚···〛·· ? ··]
h
[·· ? ··〚···〛·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]ug̣[·· ? ··]
i
[·· ? ··]ụṣtị[·· ? ··]
j
[·· ? ··〚··〛·· ? ··]
[---]
k
[·· ? ··]ọrụ[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··〚··〛
·· ? ··]
lmno
[·· ? ··]o[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]t[·· ? ··]
pq
a
[·· ? ··]··O[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··〚··〛·· ? ··]
bcde
[·· ? ··]NIC[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··〚···〛·· ? ··]
fg
[·· ? ··]·O〚[·〛·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··〚···〛·· ? ··]
h
[·· ? ··〚···〛·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]V·[·· ? ··]
ij
[·· ? ··〚··〛·· ? ··]
[---]
k
[·· ? ··]·R·[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··〚··〛·· ? ··]
lmno
[·· ? ··]O[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]T[·· ? ··]
pq
IMPCAESLSEPTIMIOSEVEROPIOPERTAVGVSTOARABICOADIABENICOPARTHICOMAXIMOET
IMPCAESMAVRANTONINOAVGPARTHMAXIMOETPSEPTIMIOGETAENOBILISSIMOCAESARIET
IVLIAEDOMNAEAVGVSTAEMATRIAVGVSTORVMMATRICASTRORVMCONIVGIAVGVSTINOSTRI
[·]
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a
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e
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t
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<unclear
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/>
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>
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extent="unknown"
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>
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<lb
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<gap
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in
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
</ab>
</div>
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Septimio
Seuero
Pio
Augusto
Arabico
Adiabenico
Parthico
maximo
et
<lb
n="2"
/>
Antonino
maximo
et
Septimio
Getae
nobilissimo
Caesari
et
<lb
n="3"
/>
Iuliae
Domnae
Augustae
matri
Augustorum
matri
castrorum
coniugi
Augusti
nostri
<lb
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/>
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>
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Reconstructed Text
Imp(eratori) Caes(ari)
L(ucio) Septimio Seuero Pio
Pert(inaci) Augusto
Arabico Adiabenico Parthico maximo et
Imp(eratori)
Caes(ari)
M(arco) Aur(elio)
Antonino
Aug(usto) Parth(ico)
maximo et P(ublio) Septimio Getae
nobilissimo Caesari et
Iuliae Domnae Augustae matri Augustorum
matri castrorum coniugi Augusti nostri
[〚[·· ? ··]〛]
A complete reconstruction is impossible, but the titles of Septimius Severus and probably of Caracalla and Julia Domna,
with the erased name of Geta, are discernible;
an erasure apparently below the titles of Julia Domna may indicate the inclusion of C. Fulvius Plautianus
or Fulvia Plautilla.
Translation:
(Translation of the partial reconstruction). To emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor
in Parthia, and emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, greatest victor in Parthia, and Publius Septimius Geta,
most noble Caesar, and Julia Domna Augusta, mother of the Augusti, mother of the camps, wife of our Augustus [·· ? ··]
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIII.16)
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