Description: Rectangular base (w:
0.46 x h:
0.90 x d:
0.50) of compact grey-brown limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w:
0.24 x h:
0.75).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.04-0.03.
Date: CE 198: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, at the South East angle.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Interpretive
Imp(eratori) Caes(ari)
L(ucio) Septimio Seuero
Pio Pertinaci Aug(usto)
Arabico Adiabenico
5Parthico maximo
pontifici maximo
trib(unicia) potest(ate) VI
imp(eratori) XI co(n)s(uli) II
( vac. ) p(atri) p(atriae) ( vac. )
10 M(arcus) Ulpius Cerealis
proc(urator) Augg(ustorum)
deuotissimus numini eius
( vac. ) posuit ( vac. )
Diplomatic
IMPCAES
LSEPTIMIOSEUERO
PIOPERTINACIAUG
ARABICOADIABENICO
5PARTHICOMAXIMO
PONTIFICIMAXIMO
TRIBPOTESTVI
IMPXICOSII
PP
10MULPIUSCEREALIS
PROCAUGG
DEUOTISSIMUSNUMINIEIUS
POSUIT
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, Victor in Arabia, Victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in
Parthia, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the sixth time, acclaimed victor eleven times, consul twice, father of
the country, Marcus Ulpius Cerealis, equestrian agent of the Augusti, deeply devoted to his divine power, set this up.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 388, whence IRT, 2009, 388, whence EDH 059311; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 912)
Fig. 2. Face: Tantillo (2005)
