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
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