442. Fragmentary dedication to ?Geta
- Description:
- Part of the left-hand side of a marble base (surviving measurements, w: 0.43 x h: 0.75 x d: 0.19).
- Text:
- Inscribed within a prepared panel (die, surviving w: 0.30 x h: 0.75).
- Letters:
- Rustic capitals: 0.04-0.05.
- Date:
- A.D. 210 (titulature and consulship)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, South portico.
- 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>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<del>
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratori
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ari
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
<unclear
reason=""
>
</abbr>
L
</unclear>
<ex>
</expan>
ucio
</ex>
Septim
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
io
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Getae
Pio
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usto
</ex>
<lb
n="2"
/>
Brittanico
Arab
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ico
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="7"
unit="character"
precision="circa"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
tri
</supplied>
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
buniciae
pot
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</del>
estatis
</supplied>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<num
value="2"
>
II
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uli
</ex>
<num
value="2"
>
II
</num>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<del>
Lepcitani
S
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
eptimiani
</supplied>
<lb
n="6"
/>
public
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
e
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
</del>
Translation:
To emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius [Geta Pius Augustus], victor in Britain, victor in Arabia, [·· ? ··] holding tribunician power for the second time, consul twice, the Septimian Lepcitanians publicly [·· ? ··](almost all erased)
Commentary:
l. 1. Augustus. Presumably Geta, although he is not otherwise known to have held the title Arabicus; erased after damnatio in 212.
l. 2. Geta was Britannicus in 210.
ll. 2-4. trib. pot. II. 10 Dec. 209 - 9 Dec. 210.
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