WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0390. Dedication to Septimius Severus

Description: Rectangular base (w: 0.51 x h: 0.97; the back and lower right-hand corner missing) of pitted, rather friable brown limestone. Uniform with 402, 419, 433.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.28 x h: 0.66).
Letters: Rustic capitals av. 0.03.

Date: CE 200: GODOT (internal date)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in the exedra at the south east angle.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) L(ucio) Septimio
Seuero Pio Perti-
naci Aug(usto) Arabico
Adiabenico Par-
5thico max(imo) pont(ifici)
max(imo) trib(unicia) potest(ate)
VIII imp(eratori) XI co(n)s(uli) II
( vac. ) p(atri) p(atriae) proco(n)s(uli) ( vac. )
M(arcus) Calpurnius Geta
10Attianus et
M(arcus) Calpurnius [At-]
tianus fil(ius) n[umi-]
ni eorum [deuo-]
tissi[mi posuerunt]

Diplomatic

IMPCAESLSEPTIMIO
SEUEROPIOPERTI
NACIAUGARABICO
ADIABENICOPAR
5THICOMAXPONT
MAXTRIBPOTEST
VIIIIMPXICOSII
      PPPROCOS      
MCALPURNIUSGETA
10ATTIANUSET
MCALPURNIUS[..-]
TIANUSFILN[...-]
NIEORUM[....-]
TISSI[...........]

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 eighth time, acclaimed victor eleven times, consul twice, father of the country, proconsul; Marcus Calpurnius Geta Attianus and Marcus Calpurnius Attianus his son, deeply devoted to their (sic) divine power, [set](scil. this)[up].

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 390, whence IRT, 2009, 390, whence EDH 059313; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 916)

   Fig. 2. Face: Tantillo (2005)