Description: Rectangular base
(w:
0.51 x h:
0.94 x d:
0.49) of rather pitted brown limestone,
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel, the upper part of which is broken away.
Uniform with 390, 419, 433.
(die w:
0.30 x h:
0.50).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.035.
Date: Between 10 Dec 199 and 9 Dec 200 (prosopography of dedicators; from IRT 390, 419). (prosopography)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, in the exedra at the South East angle.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Interpretive
[Iulia Augustae]
[matri castrorum]
[matri Augustorum]
coniugi inụịc̣[ti]
5Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) L(uci) Septimi
Seueri Pii Perti-
nacis Aug(usti) Arab(ici)
Adiabenici Par-
thici maximi
10M(arcus) Calpurnius Geta
Attianus et
M(arcus) Calpurnius Attia-
nus fil(ius) numini eorum
deuotissimi posuerunt
Diplomatic
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CONIUGIIN...[..]
5IMPCAESLSEPTIMI
SEUERIPIIPERTI
NACISAUGARAB
ADIABENICIPAR
THICIMAXIMI
10MCALPURNIUSGETA
ATTIANUSET
MCALPURNIUSATTIA
NUSFILNUMINIEORUM
DEUOTISSIMIPOSUERUNT
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[To Julia Augusta, mother of the camps, mother of the Augusti], wife of unconquered emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus
Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia; Marcus Calpurnius Geta Attianus
and Marcus Calpurnius Attianus, his son, set this up, being most devoted to their divine power.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 402, whence IRT, 2009, 402, whence EDH 059321; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 920)
Fig. 2. Tantillo (2006)
