Description: Impression left by a fragment from the lower part of a lost marble
panel
(approx. w:
0.34 x h:
0.39).
Text: Original text inscribed within a moulded border.
Letters: Capitals: 0.07.
Date: 10th Dec. CE 198- 9th Dec. 199: GODOT (titulature)
Findspot:
Sabratha: Regio VII,
Office Baths, re-used in the fourth century pavement of the south Caldarium.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Interpretive
[P(ublio) Septimio Getae nobilissimo Caesari]
[Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) L(uci) Septimi Seueri Pii Pertinacis]
[Aug(usti) Arab]ici Ad[iabenici Parthici maximi]
[trib(unicia) pot(estate)] VII imp(eratoris) X[I co(n)s(ulis) II p(atris) p(atriae) proco(n)s(ulis) filio et Imp(eratoris)]
5[Antonini Au]g(usti) fratri [---]
Diplomatic
[................................]
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[.......]ICIAD[......................]
[.......]VIIIMPX[........................]
5[..........]GFRATRI[---]
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[To Publius Septimius Geta, most noble Caesar, son of Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus, Pius, Pertinax, Augustus]
Victor in Arabia, Victor in Adiabene, [greatest Victor in Parthia, holding tribunician power for the] seventh time, acclaimed
victor [eleven times, consul twice, father of the country, proconsul and] brother [of Emperor Antoninus] Augustus [---]
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 36, whence IRT, 2009, 36, whence EDH 059031; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.IX.40)
