Description: Rectangular marble
base (w:
0.74 x h:
1.50 x d:
0.71).
Uniform with 403, 422, 434.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a recessed panel (die w:
0.34 x h:
0.59).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.035-0.02.
Date: CE 10 Dec. 200 - 9 Dec. 201: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Theatre, near the West end of the orchestra.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Interpretive
Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) L(ucio) Septimio Seuero
Pio Pertinaci
Aug(usto) Arabico Adiabenico
Parthico max(imo)
5pont(ifici) max(imo) trib(unicia) pot(estate)
VIIII imp(eratori) XI
co(n)s(uli) II p(atri) p(atriae) proco(n)s(uli)
M(arcus) Iunius Punicus proc(urator) sexagena-
rius prouinciae Thraciae cente-
10narius Alexandriae ad Mercuri
um
Diplomatic
IMPCAESLSEPTIMIOSEUERO
PIOPERTINACI
AUGARABICOADIABENICO
PARTHICOMAX
5PONTMAXTRIBPOT
VIIIIIMPXI
COSIIPPPROCOS
MIUNIUSPUNICUSPROCSEXAGENA
RIUSPROUINCIAETHRACIAECENTE
10NARIUSALEXANDRIAEADMERCURI
UM
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 ninth time, acclaimed victor eleven times, consul twice, father of
the country, proconsul; Marcus Junius Punicus, his equestrian agent in Thrace at a salary of sixty thousand sesterces, and
in Alexandria at the Temple of Mercury, at a salary of one hundred thousand.
Bibliography: Caputo, 1940 163 ff., fig. 18, whence AE 1940.95; IRT, 1952, 392, whence IRT, 2009, 392, whence EDH 020898; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Face: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 775)
Fig. 2. View: Tantillo (2003)
