Description: Rectangular base
(w:
0.45 x h:
0.87 x d:
0.50) of brown limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w:
0.26 x h:
0.67).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.05-0.025.
Date: Between 10 Dec. CE 202 and 9th Dec CE 203: GODOT
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Theatre in one of the upper tiers of the cavea.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Interpretive
Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris)
L(uci) Septimi Seueri
Pii Pertin(acis) Aug(usti)
Arabic(i) Adiab(enici)
5 Parth(ici) max(imi)
trib(unicia) potes(tate) XI
imp(eratoris) XII co(n)s(ulis) III
( vac. ) proco(n)s(ulis) ( vac. )
L(ucio) Septimio Seuero
10 flam(ini) perpe(tuo)
( vac. ) auo ( vac. )
Curiae duae
Traiana Dacica
ex uoto statuerunt
Diplomatic
IMPCAES
LSEPTIMISEUERI
PIIPERTINAUG
ARABICADIAB
5PARTHMAX
TRIBPOTESXI
IMPXIICOSIII
PROCOS
LSEPTIMIOSEUERO
10FLAMPERPE
AUO
CURIAEDUAE
TRAIANADACICA
EXUOTOSTATUERUNT
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To the grandfather of Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene,
greatest victor in Parthia, holding tribunician power for the eleventh time , acclained victor twelve times, consul for the
third time, proconsul, Lucius Septimius Severus, perpetual flamen (local priest); the two Curiae, Traiana and Dacica, set this up in accordance with a vow.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1950 66;, whence AE 1950.157; Guey, 1951 , whence AE 1952.104; IRT, 1952, 413, whence IRT, 2009, 413, whence EDH 021955; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 267 Lastre)
