Description: Rectangular base
(w:
0.52 x h:
0.83 x d:
0.50) of brown limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel
(die, w:
0.34 x h:
0.62).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.05-0.045.
Date: CE 198-210 (titulature)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Theatre, at the foot of the central stair, near 541.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Septimia Octavilla, sister of emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia, a woman (of senatorial rank); the three Curiae, Julia, Germanica and Marciana, set this up.
Commentary
Line 6. Parthicus maximus from 198.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1950, 73, whence AE 1950.161; mentioned Guey, 1949 , whence AE 1954.39; IRT, 1952, 417, whence IRT, 2009, 417, whence EDH 021967; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 287 Lastre)