916. Dedication to Septimius Severus, Caracalla and Geta
- Description:
- Block (w: 1.20 x h: 0.71 x d: 0.40) of grey limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a narrow moulded border.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: 0.05-0.06.
- Date:
- A.D. 201 (titulature)
- Findspot:
- Bu-Ngem: Fort at Bu-Ngem (map ref. X 5206), from one of the gates of the fort.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Tripoli Castle.
- Bibliography:
- Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, VIII:6. 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)
Pio Pertinaci Aug(usto) tr(ibunicia) pot(estate) VIIII
imp(eratori) co(n)s(uli) II p(atri) p(atriae) et Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) M(arco)
Aurelio Antonino Aug(usto) tr(ibunicia) p(otestate)
5 〚IIII〛 et [L(ucio)] Septimio 〚[Getae]〛 Caes(ari)
Aug(usto) Q(uinto) Anicio Fausto leg(ato)
Augustorum consulare
〚leg(ionis) 〛 〚III〛 〚Aug(ustae)〛 〚p(iae)〛 〚u(indicis)〛
3, There is a space left blank for the number of imperial salutations.
5, IIII apparently deliberately erased in error.
8, Erased after the damnatio of the legion in 238.
Translation:
To emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, holding tribunician power for the ninth time, acclaimed victor ? times, consul twice, father of the country, and to emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, holding tribunician power for the fourth time (erased), and to [Lucius] Septimius Geta (erased) Caesar Augustus; set up under Quintus Anicius Faustus, legate of the Augusti, consular commander of legion III Augusta, Pia, Vindex (erased from legion).
Commentary:
l.2-3: 10 Dec. 200 - 9 Dec. 201.
l.6: see on 913.
l.6: Cos. suff. 198, PIR (2) A 595; also in 914, l. 5; 915, ll. 6-7.
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