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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0440. Dedication to Geta

Description: Rectangular base (w: 0.45 x h: 0.88 x d: 0.52 ) of coarse grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.24 x h: 0.73).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.04.

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) Sept[imi]o
[Getae c. 3 - 4]
[nobilissimo]
[Caesari]⟧
5Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) L(uci) Septim[i]
Seueri Pii
Aug(usti) [⟦filio⟧]
M(arcus) Ulpius Cerealis
proc(urator) Augg(ustorum)
10( vac. ) posuit

Diplomatic

⟦LSEPT[...]O
[.....c. 3 - 4]
[...........]
[.......]⟧
5IMPCAESLSEPTIM[.]
SEUERIPII
AUG[.....]
MULPIUSCEREALIS
PROCAUGG
10      POSUIT

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To Lucius Septimius Geta [---], most noble Caesar, son (all erased) of emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus; Marcus Ulpius Cerealis, equestrian agent of the Augusti, set this up.

Commentary

Line 8. M. Ulpius Cerealis. Also in 388.

Discussion: Tantillo (2010), 287, 298-9.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 440, whence IRT, 2009, 440, whence EDH 059343; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 833)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.XVI.26)


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