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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0426. Dedication to ?Caracalla

Description: Marble block (w: 0.51 x h: 0.34 x d: 1.42) inscribed on the two end faces; 591 is on the opposite end.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.04.

Date: CE 198-210 (titulature)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: , Forum Severianum, at the angle of the East and South Porticoes.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

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Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) L(uci) Septimi Seueri Pii
Pertinacis Aug(usti) Arabici
Adiabenici Parthici ma-
ximi felicissimi p(atris) p(atriae)
5filio

Diplomatic

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IMPCAESLSEPTIMISEUERIPII
PERTINACISAUGARABICI
ADIABENICIPARTHICIMA
XIMIFELICISSIMIPP
5FILIO

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] son of emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia, most fortunate, father of the country.

Commentary

Line 5: Presumably Caracalla, from 198.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 426, whence IRT, 2009, 426; EDH (Bigi, 2014) 059333; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. View: Tantillo (2003)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 231 Lastre)

   Fig. 3. Ward-Perkins, 1951 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 51.III.39)

   Fig. 4. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR