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414. Dedication to P. Septimius Geta

Description:: Rectangular base (w: 0.49 x h: 0.82 x d: 0.515) of brown limestone, broken at the lower right corner.
Text:: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.23 x h: 0.515).
Letters:: Rustic capitals: 0.03-0.02.
Date:: Between 10 Dec. A.D. 200 - 9 Dec. A.D. 201. (titulature)
Findspot:: Lepcis Magna: Theatre, at the foot of the stair near the W end of the orchestra.
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Findspot
Bibliography:: Bersanetti, Athenaeum (Studi periodici di Letteratura e Storia dell'Antichità), Pavia XXIV:28 ff., plate l; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1947:48. 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)

P(ublio) Septimio Getae
patri domini n(ostri) Imp(eratoris)
Caes(aris) L(uci) Septimi Seueri
Pii Pertinacis Au[g(usti)]
5Arabici Adiabenici
Parthici maximi
pontifici maximi(sic)
trib(unicia) potest(ate) VIIII
imp(eratoris) XI co(n)s(ulis) II p(atris) p(atriae)
10 proco(n)s(ulis)
Curia Neruia ex uoto
statuit

PSEPTIMIOGETAE
PATRIDOMININIMP
CAESLSEPTIMISEVERI
PIIPERTINACISAV[··]
5ARABICIADIABENICI
PARTHICIMAXIMI
PONTIFICIMAXIMI(sic)
TRIBPOTESTVIIII
IMPXICOSIIPP
10PROCOS
CVRIANERVIAEXVOTO
STATVIT

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<ex>

ublio

</ex>

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Septimio

Getae

patri

domini

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

ostri

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

Imp

</abbr>

<ex>

eratoris

</ex>

</expan>

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<abbr>

Caes

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<ex>

aris

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

uci

</ex>

</expan>

Septimi

Seueri

Pii

Pertinacis

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

usti

</ex>

</supplied>

</expan>

Arabici

Adiabenici

Parthici

maximi

pontifici

maximi

<note>

sic

</note>

<expan>

<abbr>

trib

</abbr>

<ex>

unicia

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

potest

</abbr>

<ex>

ate

</ex>

</expan>

VIIII

</num>

<expan>

<abbr>

imp

</abbr>

<ex>

eratoris

</ex>

</expan>

</num>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

ulis

</ex>

</expan>

</num>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

atris

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

atriae

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

proco

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

ulis

</ex>

</expan>

Curia

Neruia

uoto

statuit

</ab>

Translation:

To Publius Septimius Geta, father of our lord Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the ninth time, acclaimed victor eleven times, consul twice, father of the country, proconsul; the Curia Nervia set this up in accordance with a vow.