Description: 17 fragments (the largest
w:
0.18 x h:
0.13, no edges surviving)
all probably from the same marble
panel
(d:
0.02-0.023 thick).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.07.
Date: CE 198-210 (reign)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
Interpretive
(Possible reconstruction: )
a-m, o-q
[I]mp(eratori) [Caes(ari) L(ucio) Sep]tim[io Seuero Pi]o [Pert(inaci) Augu]ṣṭo [Arabic]o ((leaf)) Ad[i]abenic[o Par]t[h]ico
[maximo et ]
[Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) Par]t[h](ico) [maxi]mo ⟦[et P(ublio) Septimio Getae nobilissimo Caesari]⟧ [et]
[Iuliae Domnae A]ug[ustae matri Augustorum matri castr]ọrụ[m] con[iugi Aug]ụṣtị [nostri]
⟦[---]⟧ Fragment n
[---]t ((leaf)) EPỊ[---]
Diplomatic
(Possible reconstruction: )
a-m, o-q
[.]MP[.....][...]TIM[..........]O[........]..O[......]O ❦ AD[.]ABENIC[....]T[.]ICO[........]
[..........]T[.....]MO⟦[..................................]⟧[..]
[.............]UG[..............................].R.[.]CON[.......]..T.[......]
⟦[---]⟧ Fragment n
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(Translation of the partial reconstruction). To emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor
in Parthia, and emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, greatest victor in Parthia, and Publius Septimius Geta,
most noble Caesar, and Julia Domna Augusta, mother of the Augusti, mother of the camps, wife of our Augustus [---]: (A complete reconstruction is impossible, but the titles of Septimius Severus and probably of Caracalla and Julia Domna, with
the erased name of Geta, are discernible; an erasure apparently below the titles of Julia Domna may indicate the inclusion
of C. Fulvius Plautianus or Fulvia Plautilla. )
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 430, whence IRT, 2009, 430, whence EDH 059335; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXIII.16)
