441. Fragmentary dedication to Geta
- Description:
- Left-hand side of a marble panel (w: 0.62 x h: 0.44 x d: 0.15).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face; later re-used and perforated with a square hole.
- Letters:
- Rustic capitals 0.04-0.05.
- Date:
- A.D. 209 (titulature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, South side.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- U. Ciotti, Bollettino dell'Istituto Nazionale d'Arte e d'Archeologia XI:118 ff. 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>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<del>
<expan>
<abbr>
P
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ublio
</ex>
Septimio
Getae
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
nobilis
</supplied>
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
simo
<expan>
</del>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ari
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uli
</ex>
<num
value="2"
>
II
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
Im
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</abbr>
p
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</expan>
<ex>
</supplied>
eratoris
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Seueri
</supplied>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usti
</ex>
filio
Antonini
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Augusti
Pii
</supplied>
<lb
n="4"
/>
fratri
<expan>
<abbr>
Lepc
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
itani
</ex>
Septimian
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ob
</supplied>
<lb
n="5"
/>
eximiam
ac
diuinam
in
s
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
e
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
indulgentiam
</supplied>
1-2, P(ublio) Septimio Getae [nobilis]simo Caes(ari): Erased after damnatio in 212.
Translation:
To Publius Septimius Geta, most noble Caesar (all erased), consul twice, son of emperor Severus Augustus, brother of Antoninus Augustus Pius; the Septimian Lepcitanians [·· ? ··], on account of his great and godlike [indulgence] to them.
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