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0395. Dedication to Septimius Severus

Description: Rectangular base (w: 0.52 x h: 0.985 x d: 0.53) of brown limestone. Uniform with 424.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.34 x h: 0.79).
Letters: Rustic capitals:0.03.

Date: CE 204: GODOT (internal date)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio V, The Portico behind the Theatre, South side.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Imp(eratori) C̣aeṣ(ari) diui Marci
Antonini Pii Ger(manici) Sarm(atici)
fil(io) diui Commodi frat(ri)
diui Antonini Pii
5 nep(oti) diui Hadriani pro-
nep(oti) diui Traiani Parth(ici)
abnepoti diui Neruae
adnepoti
L(ucio) Septimio Seuero Pio Pertina-
10c[i] Aug(usto) Arab(ico) Adiab(enico) Parth(ico)
max(imo) pont(ifici) max(imo) trib(unicia) pot(estate)
XII imp(eratori) XI co(n)s(uli) III p(atri) p(atriae) proco(n)s(uli)
p[ro]pagatori imperi ob cae-
l[est]em in se indulgentiam eius
15 D(ecimus) Cl[o]dius Galba proc(urator) reg(ionis) The-
uestinae et Hipponensis et
proc(urator) rationis priuat[a]e
per Flaminiam Aemiliam
Liguriam

Diplomatic

IMP.AE.DIUIMARCI
ANTONINIPIIGERSARM
FILDIUICOMMODIFRAT
DIUIANTONINIPII
5NEPDIUIHADRIANIPRO
NEPDIUITRAIANIPARTH
ABNEPOTIDIUINERUAE
ADNEPOTI
LSEPTIMIOSEUEROPIOPERTINA
10C[.]AUGARABADIABPARTH
MAXPONTMAXTRIBPOT
XIIIMPXICOSIIIPPPROCOS
P[..]PAGATORIIMPERIOBCAE
L[...]EMINSEINDULGENTIAMEIUS
15DCL[.]DIUSGALBAPROCREGTHE
UESTINAEETHIPPONENSISET
PROCRATIONISPRIUAT[.]E
PERFLAMINIAMAEMILIAM
LIGURIAM

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To Emperor Caesar, son of deified Marcus Antoninus Pius, victor in Germany, victor in Sarmatia, brother of deified Commodus, grandson of deified Antoninus Pius, great-grandson of deified Hadrian, great great grandson of defied Trajan, victor in Parthia, great great great grandson of deified Nerva, Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, Parthicus Maximus, greatest victor in Parthia, victor in Adiabene, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the twelfth time, acclaimed victor eleven times, consul three times, father of the country, proconsul , enlarger of the empire, on account of his godlike indulgence to him; Decimus Clodius Galba, equestrian agent of the emperor in the region of Theveste and Hippo, agent in charge of imperial private property in Flaminia, Aemilia and Liguria.

Commentary

D. Clodius Galba: RE 12, Clodius 31a, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/4596

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 395, whence IRT, 2009, 395, whence EDH 059315; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Face: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 135)

   Fig. 2. View: Tantillo (2005)


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