Description: Part of the left-hand side of a marble
base
(surviving measurements, w:
0.43 x h:
0.75 x d:
0.19).
Text: Inscribed within a prepared panel
(die, surviving w:
0.30 x h:
0.75).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.04-0.05.
Date: CE 210: GODOT, GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: ,
Forum Severianum, South portico.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius [Geta Pius Augustus], victor in Britain, victor in Arabia, [---] holding tribunician power for the second time, consul twice, the Septimian Lepcitanians publicly [---](almost all erased)
Commentary
Line 1. Presumably Geta, although he is not otherwise known to have held the title Arabicus; erased after damnatio in 212.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 442, whence IRT, 2009, 442, whence EDH 059345; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1951 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 51.II.22)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 577)