887. Fragmentary dedication to Septimius Severus
- Description:
- On a stone (?block) built into an ancient wall.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- Not recorded.
- Date:
- 193-211 A.D. (reign)
- Findspot:
- Middle Lower Sofeggin Basin : Bir Tarsin (map ref. Q 623325). Recorded about 1925 by G. Martinotti. Not seen again.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Fidnspot (1925): a search of the area in 1949 revealed no traces.
- Bibliography:
- Manuale Itinerario della Tripolitania, Tripoli, 1914, supplement (undated): Itinerario N. 39. 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:
- Previous publications.
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratori
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ari
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ucio
</ex>
Septimio
Seuero
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
To emperor Caesar Lucius Septmius Severus [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
- Photographs:
- none.
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