Description: Rectangular base
(w:
0.47 x h:
0.88 x d:
0.44)
of fine brown limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w:
0.23 x h:
0.64).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.025-0.03.
Date: CE 198-209 (titulature)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, Temple of Hercules (see 433).
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Interpretive
⟦P(ublio) Septi[m]io [Getae]
( vac. ) C[a]ẹṣ(ari)⟧ ( vac. )
Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) L(uci) Septimi
Seueri Pii Pertina-
5cis Aug(usti) Arabici A-
diabenici Parthi-
ci maximi fortissi-
mi felicissimi
p(atris) p(atriae) filio et Imp(eratoris)
10Caes(aris) M(arci) Aurelli An-
tonino Aug(usti) trib(unicia) pot(estate)
( vac. 2)proco(n)s(ulis) fratri
Messius Atticus c(enturio)
coh(ortis) X urb(anae)
15uotum soluit
Diplomatic
⟦PSEPTI[.]IO[.....]
C[.]..⟧
IMPCAESLSEPTIMI
SEUERIPIIPERTINA
5CISAUGARABICIA
DIABENICIPARTHI
CIMAXIMIFORTISSI
MIFELICISSIMI
PPFILIOETIMP
10CAESMAURELLIAN
TONINOAUGTRIBPOT
PROCOSFRATRI
MESSIUSATTICUSC
COHXURB
15UOTUMSOLUIT
12: There is a blank space at the beginning of the line, clearly intended for the number of the tribunician year.
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 corageous, most fortunate, father of the country, and brother of emperor Caesar Marcus Aurellius Antoninus
Augustus, holding tribunician power, proconsul, Messius Atticus, centurion of Cohort Ten of the urban guards, paid his vow.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 439, whence IRT, 2009, 439, whence EDH 059342; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 835)
Fig. 2. Face: Tantillo (2005)
