WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0039. Dedication? to a Severan

Description: Part of a marble panel (w: 0.36 x h: 0.35, no edge surviving).
Text: Inscribed on one face. Traces of red paint in the letters.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: 0.07.

Date: CE 198-211 (reign)

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio I, Capitolium, found in the vaults; see note on 1.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

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[L(uci) Septimi Seueri Pi]i Pert[(inacis) Arab(ici) Adiab(enici) Parth(ici) max(imi) f(ilii)]
[diui Marci nepotis] diui Pii pron[ep(otis) diui Hadriani abnep(otis)]
[diui Traiani Pa]rth(ici) abn(epotis) di[ui Neruae proadnep(otis)] (sic)
5[c. 10 coni]ugi C̣[---]

Diplomatic

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[................]IPERT[..................]
[................]DIUIPIIPRON[..][.................]
[.............]RTHABNDI[................](sic)
5[··········....]UGI.[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[To---] wife of[--- the son of Lucius Septimius Severus] Pius, Pertinax, [Augustus, Victor in Arabia, Victor in Adiabene, greatest Victor in Parthia, grandson of deified Marcus], great grandson of deified Pius, [great great grandson of deified Hadrian, great great great grandson of deified Trajan], Victor in Parthia, [great great great great grandson of] deified [Nerva ---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 39, whence IRT, 2009, 39, whence EDH 059034; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 760 Leica)


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