Description: Rectangular base (w:
0.82 x h:
1.02 x d:
0.47) of grey marble.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w:
0.40 x h:
0.76).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.04.
Date: CE 198-209 (reign)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, in the exedra at the South East angle.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(scil. Statue of) Liber Pater, son of Jupiter, the offering which I had destined for the Lar of the home city of Severus, the son of Jupiter, who is my sun, my father Pudens (scil. paid) on behalf of his son, on account of my candidature for the tribunate (scil. at Rome) and my subsequent praetorship and the great indulgence which the two principes have conferred on us; as an offering which comprises all that I have vowed I dedicate two elephant tusks from your own Indian animals.
Commentary
Line 8. Severus and Caracalla, from 196
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1940a 79ff., fig. 15, whence AE 1942-43.2. IRT, 1952, 295, whence IRT, 2009, 295; EDH (Bigi, 2014) 018197; Laronde, 2005 94, whence AE 2005.1662; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.Discussed Guey, 1952 61-63, whence AE, 1952, page 52, AE, 1953.185 Guey, 1953 341, whence AE 1954.201e.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 918)
Fig. 2. Face: Tantillo (2005)
Fig. 3. Face: Tantillo (2005)