448. Fragmentary dedication to Severus Alexander
- Description:
- Four fragments from a narrow marble panel (c. 0.65, no edges surviving); probably uniform with 451.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.10.
- Date:
- A.D. 222-235 (reign)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Theatre.
- 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"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
I
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
mp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratori
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ari
</ex>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
arco
</ex>
Au
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
re
</supplied>
lli
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
o
</supplied>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Seu
</supplied>
ero
<lb
n="4"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Alexa
</supplied>
ndro
<lb
n="5"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Pio
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Fe
</supplied>
lici
<lb
n="6"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usto
</ex>
<lb
n="7"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Le
</supplied>
pcitan
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
pu
</supplied>
blice
Translation:
To emperor [Caesar] Marcus Aurellius Severus Alexander, [Pius], Felix, [Augustus]; the Lepcitanians publicly.
Commentary:
Alexander Severus: Augustus 222-235.
Photographs:
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