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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0441. Fragmentary dedication to Geta

Description: Left-hand side of a marble panel (w: 0.62 x h: 0.44 x d: 0.15).
Text: Inscribed on one face; later re-used and perforated with a square hole.
Letters: Rustic capitals 0.04-0.05.

Date: CE 208: GODOT (internal date)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: , Forum Severianum, South side.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

⟦P(ublio) Septimio Getae [nobilis-]
simo Caes(ari)⟧ co(n)s(uli) II Im[p(eratoris) Seueri]
Aug(usti) filio Antonini [Augusti Pii]
fratri Lepc(itani) Septimian[i ---ob]
5eximiam ac diuinam in s[e indulgentiam]

Diplomatic

⟦PSEPTIMIOGETAE[.......-]
SIMOCAES⟧COSIIIM[.][......]
AUGFILIOANTONINI[..........]
FRATRILEPCSEPTIMIAN[.---..]
5EXIMIAMACDIUINAMINS[.............]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To Publius Septimius Geta, most noble Caesar (all erased), consul twice, son of emperor Severus Augustus, brother of Antoninus Augustus Pius; the Septimian Lepcitanians [---], on account of his great and godlike [indulgence] to them.

Bibliography: Ciotti, 1948 118 ff; IRT, 1952, 441, whence IRT, 2009, 441, whence EDH 059344; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 336)