Description: Rectangular base
(w:
0.50 x h:
0.92 x d:
0.57)
of fine brown limestone. One of the eight inscriptions in honour of Geta found together re-used in a late wall. See also 435, 437 - 440,
443 and 444.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel
(die, w:
0.30 x h:
0.61). Uniform with 390, 402, 419.
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.035.
Date: Between 10th Dec 199 and 9th Dec 200 (dated from 390, 419). (prosopography)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, Temple of Hercules.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Interpretive
⟦P(ublio) [Septimio Getae]
( vac. )[Caes(ari)]⟧ ( vac. )
Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) L(uci) Septimi
Seueri Pii Pertina-
5cis Aug(usti) Arab(ici) Adiab(enici)
Parth(ici) max(imi) felicis-
simi p(atris) p(atriae) ⟦filio⟧ ( vac. )
M(arcus) Calpurnius Geta
( vac. ) Attianus et ( vac. )
10M(arcus) Calpurnius At-
tianus fil(ius)
numini eorum de-
uotissimi posuerunt
Diplomatic
⟦P[.............]
[....]⟧
IMPCAESLSEPTIMI
SEUERIPIIPERTINA
5CISAUGARABADIAB
PARTHMAXFELICIS
SIMIPP⟦FILIO⟧
MCALPURNIUSGETA
ATTIANUSET
10MCALPURNIUSAT
TIANUSFIL
NUMINIEORUMDE
UOTISSIMIPOSUERUNT
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Publius Septimius Geta Caesar (all erased) 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, Marcus Calpurnius Gela Attianus and Marcus Calpurnius Attianus, his son,
deeply devoted to their divine power, set this up.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1940c, 9-10; IRT, 1952, 433, whence IRT, 2009, 433, whence EDH 059337; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 836)
Fig. 2. Face: Tantillo (2005)
