Description: Moulded marble
base (w:
0.72 x h:
1.50 x d:
0.62), apparently reversed and re-used
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w:
0.33 x h:
0.59).
Letters: Rustic capitals: line 1, 0.085; lines 2-3, 0.055; line 4, 0.045; remainder, 0.04.
Date: CE 197: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus,
in the cella of the Temple of Liber Pater.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, father of the country, holding tribunician power for the fifth time, consul twice, acclaimed victor eight times, saviour of the world, on account of his conscientious treatment of them, in public and in private, the Lepcitanians publicly.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 387, whence IRT, 2009, 387, whence EDH 059310; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVI.11)
Fig. 2. View: Tantillo (2005)
Fig. 3. Face: Tantillo (2004)