435. Dedication to Geta
- Description:
- Rectangular base (w: 0.49 x h: 1.06 x d: 0.48) of hard but badly pitted grey limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.25 x h: 0.73).
- Letters:
- Rustic capitals: av. 0.04.
- Date:
- A.D. 198-209. (titulature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, North Temple (see 433).
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
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n="1"
/>
<del>
<expan>
<abbr>
P
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ublio
</ex>
Septimio
<lb
n="2"
/>
Getae
<expan>
</del>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Cae
</supplied>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ari
</ex>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratoris
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
aris
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uci
</ex>
<lb
n="4"
/>
Septimi
Se
<lb
n="5"
type="worddiv"
/>
ueri
Pii
Per
<lb
n="6"
type="worddiv"
/>
tinacis
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usti
</ex>
<lb
n="7"
/>
Arabici
Adi
<lb
n="8"
type="worddiv"
/>
abenici
Par
<lb
n="9"
type="worddiv"
/>
thici
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
imi
</ex>
<lb
n="10"
/>
felicissimi
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
atris
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
atriae
</ex>
<lb
n="11"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
fil
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
io
</ex>
<lb
n="12"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Lep
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
citani
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
S
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
e
</supplied>
pt
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
imiani
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
publ
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ice
</ex>
ex
uo
<lb
n="13"
type="worddiv"
/>
to
posuerunt
1-2, P(ublio) Septimio Getae Caes(ari): From 198; erased after damnatio in 212.
Translation:
To Publius Septimius Geta Caesar (all erased) son of emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia, most fortunate, father of the country; the Septimian Lepcitanians set this up publicly in accordance with a vow.
Commentary:
ll. 8-9. L. Septimius Severus was Parthicus maximus from 198.
Photographs:
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