Description: Four fragments
(w:
0.13 x h:
0.21, top edge;
w:
0.10 x h:
0.22, no edges;
w:
0.27 x h:
0.27, R edge; and
w:
0.16 x h:
0.89, left edge)
of a panel of white marble.
Text: Inscribed on the back of a fluted pilaster reversed and re-used.
Letters: Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.10-0.11.
Date: CE 198-210 (titulature)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
Interpretive
[Im]p(eratori) C[aes(ari) Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) L(uci)] Sep[timi]
[Seueri Pii Pertinacis Au]g(usti) Arab-
[ibic(i) Adiab(enici) Parth(ici) maxim]i filio
[diui Marci nep(oti) diui Pii pronep(oti)]
5di[ui Hadriani abnep(oti) diui Traiani]
ad[nep(oti) M(arco) Aurelio Antonino Aug(usto)]
Lep[citani publice]
Diplomatic
[..]PC[...][..........]SEP[....]
[.....................]GARAB
[....][...............]IFILIO
[.........................]
5DI[..........................]
AD[...][...................]
LEP[.............]
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[To em]peror C[aesar] son [of emperor Caesar Lucius] Sep[timius Severus Pius Pertinax Au]gustus, victor in Ara[bia, victor
in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia, grandson of deified Marcus, great grandson of deified Pius, great great grandson
of] de[ified Hadrian,] great great great [grandson of deified Trajan, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus]; the Lep[citanians
publicly]
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 425, whence IRT, 2009, 425, whence EDH 059332; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.X.28)
