Description: Rectangular base
(w:
0.47 x h:
0.71 x d:
0.51) of very coarse grey limestone, badly weathered.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel
(die, w:
0.25 x h:
0.50).
Letters: Rustic capitals: line 1-9, 0.-04; line 10-12, 0.02-0.03.
Date: CE 198-209. (titulature)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, Temple of Hercules (see 433).
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Interpretive
⟦L(ucio) S[ep]t[i]mio Ge-
tae Caes(ari)⟧
Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) L(uci) Sep-
ṭịṃị Ṣeueri Pii
5Pertinacis Aug(usti) Ara-
bici Adiabenici
Parthici max(imi)
( vac. ) fil(io) et( vac. )
Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) M(arci) Aurelli
10Antonini Aug(usti) fratr-
i Messius Atticus
prim(us) sacerd(os) uot(um) sol(uit)
Diplomatic
⟦LS[..]T[.]MIOGE
TAECAES⟧
IMPCAESLSEP
.....EUERIPII
5PERTINACISAUGARA
BICIADIABENICI
PARTHICIMAX
FILET
IMPCAESMAURELLI
10ANTONINIAUGFRATR
IMESSIUSATTICUS
PRIMSACERDUOTSOL
1-2: L. Septimius Geta was Caesar from 198; these lines erased after damnatio in 212.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Lucius 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, and brother of emperor Caesar Marcus Aurellius Antoninus Augustus, Messius Atticus, first priest, paid his vow.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 438, whence IRT, 2009, 438, whence EDH 059341; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 832)
