Description: Rectangular base
(w:
0.46 x h:
0.97 x d:
0.41) of grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face. Found re-used as a bracket. An oblong hole has been cut between line 4 and 5.
Letters: Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.06-0.05.
Date: CE 198-209 (titulature)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Theatre, South side of the rear portico.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Unknown
1: From 198, erased after damnatio in 212.
7: filio Erased after damnatio in 212.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Publius Septimius Geta Caesar, son (all erased) of Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia, most fortunate, father of the country; the Curia Matidia set this up in accordance with a vow.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1950, 75, note e, whence AE 1950.163e; IRT, 1952, 436, whence IRT, 2009, 436, whence EDH 021985; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. View: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1144 Leica)
Fig. 2. Face: Tantillo (2005)