Description: Three blocks (each w:
0.51 x h:
1.08 x d:
0.36) of hard brown limestone.
Text: Inscribed on the face, a on the upper row of blocks, b on the row below
Letters: Lapidary capitals: a) line 1, 0.15; line 2, 0.135; line 3, 0.105;b) line 1, 0.10; line 2, 0.12.
Date: ?CE 202: GODOT (titulature)
Findspot:
Sabratha: Regio I,
in the Justinian church, between the Forum and the sea.
Found re-used in the construction of the church, along with many plain and moulded blocks from the same monument.
Original location: A large base, possibly for a quadriga (
8.84
7.34
),
the remains of which have been identified at a cross-roads to the west of the Theatre.
Last recorded location:
Findspot
a.2: [X], suggested by the length of the line Kenrick, 1986
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
a. [To Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimus Severus] Pius Pertinax Augustus, Victor in Arabia, [Uictor in Adiabene, greatest Victor in Parthia], chief [priest], holding tribunician power [for the ? time, acclaimed Victor ? times, consul for the ? time] father of the country
b. (Set up) in accordance with the will [of---] Quintus Caecilius ( case unknown) [---]
Commentary
Line a.2: Parthicus maximus from 198. The restoration of these titles is required by the length of the line.
Line b.2:Perhaps, from the relative size of the lettering, not the testator but the dedicating proconsul: so Kenrick, loc.cit.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 33, whence IRT, 2009 33; Kenrick, 1986, 213-217, fig. 93-95, whence AE 1986.710; from these EDH 059028; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Reconstruction drawing: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1946 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 46.III.4)
Fig. 3. Ward-Perkins Archive, 1946 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 46.VI.30)
Fig. 4. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.VII.35)