Description: Part of a polygonal base of marble, broken at either side
(surviving width, w:
0.40 x h:
0.32 x d:
0.60).
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face, with a moulding above and below. Uniform with 400 and 404.
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.02-0.025.
Date: CE 216 (from 400). (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Severianum:
Severan Basilica, found built into the steps of the South apse.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[To emperor Caesar] Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix [Augustus], greatest [Uictor in Parthia,] greatest victor in Britannia, greatest victor in Germany, chief priest, holding tribunician power [for the nineteenth time, acclaimed victor three times,] consul four times, father of the country, the Septimian Lepcitanians [in return for] his continuous indulgence.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 429, whence IRT, 2009, 429, whence EDH 059334; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1532 Leica)