Description: Part of a marble
panel, recomposed from fragments w:
3.80 x h:
0.95, left part missing).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lines 1-2, Rustic capitals, 0.05-0.06. The existing lines 1-2 have been re-inscribed in the space from which a previous text,
in honour of Commodus (see line 5), has been erased. Lines 3-8: Second century CE capitals, 0.07-0.085.
Date: CE 198-210. (titulature)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio II,
Hadrianic Baths, in the Frigidarium.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot, and three fragments in
Lepcis Museum
Interpretive
a
[--- Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) L(uci) Septimi S]eue[ri Pii Pertinacis Aug(usti) Arabici A]diaben[ici Par]thici maximi [pontificis
max]imi [tribunici]ae potes[tati]s X̣[c. 1 - 2] imp[eratoris? co(n)s(ulis) p(atris)?] p(atriae) et I[mp(eratoris)]
[Caes(aris) M(arci) Aurelli Antonini --- et I]uliae [Augu]ṣtae [matris Augusti et cas]tror[um totiusque] diuinae domus
[---] Rusoṇianus fl[am(en)] augur IIuir q(uin)q(uennalis) cellam f[rigi]darii et [c]ry (sic)-
[pta ---] ṛui[na con]labsas [e]x pollicitatione m[un]eris gladiato[ri o]ḅ honorem
5 [quinquennalita]ṭis p[c. 6 - 7] permissu sacratiss[imi pr]incipis diui M(arci) Antonin[i f(ili)] a fundamentis
[---] marmoribus et co[l]umnis exornauit stat[u]am Aesculapii nouam
[--- res]tituit ceter[as] refe[c]it ex [multi]s aliis [m]une[ribu]s rei p(ublicae) suae conlatis et
[---]uli nomine ụị[c. 1 - 2]itị[---] b(Fragment of uncertain position )
Diplomatic
a
[---................]EUE[..........................]DIABEN[......]THICIMAXIMI[.............]IMI[.........]AEPOTES[....]S.[c. 1 - 2]IMP[............]PETI[..]
[....................---...]ULIAE[....].TAE[..................]TROR[...........]DIUINAEDOMUS
[---]RUSO.IANUSFL[..]AUGURIIUIRQQCELLAMF[....]DARIIET[.]RY(sic)
[...---].UI[.....]LABSAS[.]XPOLLICITATIONEM[..]ERISGLADIATO[...].HONOREM
5[..............].ISP[c. 6 - 7]PERMISSUSACRATISS[.....]INCIPISDIUIMANTONIN[..]AFUNDAMENTIS
[---]MARMORIBUSETCO[.]UMNISEXORNAUITSTAT[.]AMAESCULAPIINOUAM
[---...]TITUITCETER[..]REFE[.]ITEX[.....]SALIIS[.]UNE[....]SREIPSUAECONLATISET
[---]ULINOMINE..[c. 1 - 2]IT.[---] b(Fragment of uncertain position )
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
a.[---of Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius] Severus [Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia], victor in Adiabene, greatest victor
in Parthia, chief [priest], holding [tribunician] power for (scil. at least) ten times, acclaimed victor [--- times, consul --- times father] of the country, and of Emperor [Caesar Marcus Aurellius Antoninus] and of Julia Augusta [mother of Augustus
and] of the camps [and of the whole] divine household, [---] Rusonianus, flamen (priest), augur (priest) quinquennial duovir [gave] the main chamber of the cold bath and [---] which had collapsed in ruins, instead of the gladiatorial show promised on account of the office of the quinquennial duumvirate
[---] with the permission of the most sacred emperor, son of deified Marcus Antoninus, from the foundations [---]; he adorned it with marbles and columns, [gave] a new statue of Aesculapius, restored [---] others new among many other generous gifts made to his city and [---] in the name [---].
b. (Not usefully translatable)
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1929, 79ff., pl. VIII b; IRT, 1952, 396, whence IRT, 2009, 396; Benseddik, 2010 60; EDH 059316; Di Vita-Évrard, 1991 , whence AE 1991.1619. See also Laronde, 2005 114-115, whence AE 2005.1662; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. BSR (Sopr. DLM 250 Lastre)
Fig. 2. Left end: Ward-Perkins, 1951 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 51.II.27)
Fig. 3. Left end: Tantillo (2005)
Fig. 4. Centre: Ward-Perkins, 1951 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 51.II.28)
Fig. 5. Centre: Tantillo (2005)
Fig. 6. Right end: Ward-Perkins, 1951 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 51.II.31)
Fig. 7. Right end: Tantillo (2005)
Fig. 8. From left: Above, fragments from
396; Below:
626,
750: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXII.16)
