Description: Part of a polygonal marble
base (width incomplete; w:
0.40 x h:
0.25 x d:
0.35),
uniform with 404 and 429.
Text: Inscribed on one face with traces of a moulding above and below.
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.025.
Date: CE 216: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Severianum:
Severan Basilica, found built into the steps of the South apse.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To [deified] Severus, father of Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurellius Antoninus Pius Felix [Augustus], greatest victor in Parthia, greatest victor in Brittania, [greatest] victor in Germany, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the nineteenth time, acclaimed victor three times, consul four times, father of the country, the Septimian Lepcitanians.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 400, whence IRT, 2009, 400, whence EDH 059320; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1530 Leica)