909. Fragmentary dedication to Septimius Severus and sons
- Description:
- Top left-hand corner fragment of a panel. No dimensions recorded. Not seen.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals.
- Date:
- A.D. 209-211 (reign)
- Findspot:
- Ghadames: Found in an Arab house in 1913..
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1913)
- Bibliography:
- Pavoni, Rivista Coloniale, VIII, ii:315 and fig. 19. 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>
eratoribus
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
Ca
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</expan>
<abbr>
es
</abbr>
<ex>
</supplied>
aribus
</ex>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
Seuero
Pio
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Parth
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ico
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
imo
</ex>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
1, IMPP[P], the third P erased after the damnatio of Geta in 212.
Translation:
To the emperors Caesars [·· ? ··] Severus Pius [·· ? ··] greatest victor in Parthia [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
- Photographs:
- none.
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