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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0412. Dedication to Lucius Septimius Severus

Description: Rectangular base of marble (w: 0.56 x h: 0.88 x d: 0.39).
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.35 x h: 0.67).
Letters: Rustic capitals: line 1, 0.055; remainder, 0.05-0.04.

Date: CE 202: GODOT and GODOT (internal date)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in the passage between the Temple of Rome and Augustus and the Temple of Liber Pater.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) L(uci) Septimi Se-
ueri Pii Pertinacis
Aug(usti) Arabici Adiabenici
Parthici max(imi) t(ribunica) p(otestate) X imp(eratoris)
5XI co(n)s(ulis) III p(atris) p(atriae) proco(n)s(ulis)
( vac. ) auo d(omini) n(ostri) ( vac. )
L(ucio) Septimio Seuero sufeti praef(ecto)
publ(ice) creato cum primum ci-
uitas Romana adacta est
10 du(u)muir(o) fl(amini) p(er)p(etuo) in decuriis
et inter selectos Romae
iudicauit Lepc(i)t(ani) publ(ice)

Diplomatic

IMPCAESLSEPTIMISE
UERIPIIPERTINACIS
AUGARABICIADIABENICI
PARTHICIMAXTPXIMP
5XICOSIIIPPPROCOS
      AUODN      
LSEPTIMIOSEUEROSUFETIPRAEF
PUBLCREATOCUMPRIMUMCI
UITASROMANAADACTAEST
10DUMUIRFLPPINDECURIIS
ETINTERSELECTOSROMAE
IUDICAUITLEPCTPUBL

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To the grandfather of our lord Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia, holding tribunician power for the tenth time, acclaimed victor eleven times, consul for the third time, father of the country, proconsul, Lucius Septimius Severus, sufete, publicly created prefect when first Roman citizenship was introduced, duumvirate, perpetual flamen (priest); he was a (scil. Roman) jury-man, in the official list and actually judged cases at Rome, being among those selected to act. The Lepcitanians publicly.

Commentary

Lucius Septimius Severus: PIR S 0488, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/12209

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1950, 59, whence AE 1950.156; Guey, 1951 , whence AE 1952, page 36; IRT, 1952, 412, whence IRT, 2009, 412, whence EDH (Bigi, 2014) 021952; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1367 Leica)