Description: Rectangular base
(w:
0.49 x h:
0.82 x d:
0.515) of brown limestone,
broken at the lower right corner.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel
(die, w:
0.23 x h:
0.515).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.03-0.02.
Date: Between 10 Dec. CE 200 - 9 Dec. CE 201: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Theatre, at the foot of the stair near the W end of the orchestra.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Interpretive
P(ublio) Septimio Getae
patri domini n(ostri) Imp(eratoris)
Caes(aris) L(uci) Septimi Seueri
Pii Pertinacis Au[g(usti)]
5Arabici Adiabenici
Parthici maximi
pontifici maximi(sic)
trib(unicia) potest(ate) VIIII
imp(eratoris) XI co(n)s(ulis) II p(atris) p(atriae)
10 proco(n)s(ulis)
Curia Neruia ex uoto
statuit
Diplomatic
PSEPTIMIOGETAE
PATRIDOMININIMP
CAESLSEPTIMISEUERI
PIIPERTINACISAU[.]
5ARABICIADIABENICI
PARTHICIMAXIMI
PONTIFICIMAXIMI(sic)
TRIBPOTESTVIIII
IMPXICOSIIPP
10PROCOS
CURIANERUIAEXUOTO
STATUIT
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Publius Septimius Geta, father of our lord Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia,
victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the ninth time, acclaimed victor
eleven times, consul twice, father of the country, proconsul; the Curia Nervia set this up in accordance with a vow.
Bibliography: Bersanetti, 1946 28 ff., plate l, whence AE 1947.48; mentioned Aurigemma, 1950 69, whence AE 1950.158; IRT, 1952, 414, whence IRT, 2009, 414, whence EDH 019394; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1358 Leica)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1088 Leica)
Fig. 3. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1405 Leica)
