607. Testamentary honours for Septimia Polla

Description:
Rectangular marble base (w: 0.58 x h: 1.42 x d: 0.58). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.27 x h: 1.11). 
Letters:
Rustic capitals: l. 1, 0.065; ll. 2-5, 0.05; remainder, 0.035-0.04. 
Date:
Before A.D. 193. (prosopography) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Colonnaded Street - in the monumental exedra at the head of the street. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Aurigemma, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, Roma (Ministero dell'Africa Italiana), vol. I, 1950, I:63 L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.), 1950, 158 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) 
Septimiae
Pollae L(uci)
Septimi Seueri
IIuir(i) flam(inis) perp(etui)
5 fil(iae) P(ublius) Septimius
Geta her(es) sorori
sanctissimae
ex arg(ento) p(ondo) CXXXXIIII
S = = Σ decreto
10splendidissimi
ordinis posuit
ex testamento
eius huic dono
uicesimam et
15 arg(enti) p(ondo) IIIII S = = Σ
amplius quam le-
gatum est adiecit
SEPTIMIAE
POLLAEL
SEPTIMISEVERI
IIVIRFLAMPERP
5FILPSEPTIMIVS
GETAHERSORORI
SANCTISSIMAE
EXARGPCXXXXIIII
S==ΣDECRETO
10SPLENDIDISSIMI
ORDINISPOSVIT
EXTESTAMENTO
EIVSHVICDONO
VICESIMAMET
15ARGPIIIIIS==Σ
AMPLIVSQVAMLE
GATVMESTADIECIT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Septimiae
<lb n="2" />
Pollae
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
uci
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
Septimi
Seueri
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<num value="2" >
II
</num>
uir
</abbr>
<ex>
i
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
flam
</abbr>
<ex>
inis
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
perp
</abbr>
<ex>
etui
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
fil
</abbr>
<ex>
iae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
P
</abbr>
<ex>
ublius
</ex>
</expan>
Septimius
<lb n="6" />
Geta
<expan>
<abbr>
her
</abbr>
<ex>
es
</ex>
</expan>
sorori
<lb n="7" />
sanctissimae
<lb n="8" />
ex
<expan>
<abbr>
arg
</abbr>
<ex>
ento
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
ondo
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="144" >
CXXXXIIII
</num>
<lb n="9" />
S = = Σ
decreto
<lb n="10" />
splendidissimi
<lb n="11" />
ordinis
posuit
<lb n="12" />
ex
testamento
<lb n="13" />
eius
huic
dono
<lb n="14" />
uicesimam
et
<lb n="15" />
<expan>
<abbr>
arg
</abbr>
<ex>
enti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
ondo
</ex>
</expan>
I
<num >
IIII
</num>
S = = Σ
<lb n="16" />
amplius
quam
le
<lb n="17" type="worddiv" />
gatum
est
adiecit
</ab>

Translation:

To Septimia Polla, daughter of Lucius Septimius Severus, duumvir, perpetual flamen (priest); Publius Septimius Geta, her heir, to his most innocent sister; made from 144 pounds and 10 1/2 ounces of silver he erected (this) by decree of the most splendid city council in accordance with her will, and in addition he gave ?the tax of the 20th on heirlooms and 4 lbs 10 1/2 onces of silver in addition to what was bequeathed.

Commentary:

l. 2. Septimia Polla. See genealogical tree of the family of Septimius Severus, p. 19.

l. 3. Lucius Septimius Severus. Also in 412, ll. 6-12; 413, l. 9.

l. 6. P. Septimius Geta. Also in 414, ll. 1-2.

l.14. Perhaps the XX hereditatium?: see Guey ap. L'Ann Ep. 1950, 158.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 937)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 937)

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