Description: Rectangular base
(width by surviving height by depth w:
0.53 x h:
0.91 x d:
0.53) of brown limestone, broken above. Uniform with 395.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel
(die w:
0.31 x h:
0.70).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.03.
Date: Between 10th Dec. CE 203 and 9th Dec. 204: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Theatre, South side of rear portico
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Interpretive
[Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) Seueri Aug(usti) f(ilio) diui]
Marci [Antonini Pii Ger(manici)]
Sarm(atici) nep[(oti) diui Antonini]
Pii pronepoti [diui Hadri-]
5ani abnepoti di[ui Traiani]
Parth(ici) et diui Nẹṛ[u]ạẹ ad-
nepoti M(arco) Aurelio
Antoni[no Pi]o Felici
ṭṛịḅ(unicia) potest(ate) VII co(n)s(uli) des(i)g(nato) II
10 proco(n)s(uli) propagatori imp(eri)
ob caelestem in se
indulgentiam eius
D(ecimus) Clodius Galba proc(urator) reg(ionis)
Theuestinae et Hipponen-
15sis et proc(urator) rationis pri-
uatae per Flaminiam
Aemiliam Liguriam
Diplomatic
[.....................]
MARCI[..............]
SARMNEP[............]
PIIPRONEPOTI[.........-]
5ANIABNEPOTIDI[.........]
PARTHETDIUIN..[.]..AD
NEPOTIMAURELIO
ANTONI[....]OFELICI
....POTESTVIICOSDESGII
10PROCOSPROPAGATORIIMP
OBCAELESTEMINSE
INDULGENTIAMEIUS
DCLODIUSGALBAPROCREG
THEUESTINAEETHIPPONEN
15SISETPROCRATIONISPRI
UATAEPERFLAMINIAM
AEMILIAMLIGURIAM
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[To emperor Caesar, son of Severus Augustus,] grandson [of deified] Marcus [Antoninus Pius, victor in Germany,] victor in
Sarmatia, great grandson [of deified Antoninus] Pius, great great grandson [of deified Hadrian,] great great great grandson
of deified [Trajan] victor in Parthia, and of deified Nerva, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus [Pi]us Felix, holding tribunician power
for the seventh time, designated consul for the second, proconsul, extender of the empire, on account of his godlike indulgence
to him, Decimus Clodius Galba, equestrian imperial agent in charge of the region of Theueste and Hippo, and imperial agent
for private affairs in Flaminia, Aemilia and Liguria.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 424, whence IRT, 2009, 424, whence EDH 059331; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Face: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 286 Lastre)
Fig. 2. View: Tantillo (2005)
