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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0443. Dedication to Geta

Description: Rectangular base (w: 0.51 x h: 1.08 x d: 0.52) of pitted grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.28 x h: 0.72).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.045-0.04.

Date: CE 209-212. (reign)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, Temple of Hercules (see 433).
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

⟦P(ublio) Septimio
Getae Aug(usto)
[---]
[---]⟧
5M(arcus) Cornelius
Bassus Seruia-
nus e(gregiae) m(emoriae) u(ir) fieri
( vac. ) iussit ( vac. )
Cornelia Seruian[il-]
10la c(larissima) f(emina) filia et
heres posuit

Diplomatic

⟦PSEPTIMIO
GETAEAUG
[---]
[---]⟧
5MCORNELIUS
BASSUSSERUIA
NUSEMUFIERI
      IUSSIT      
CORNELIASERUIAN[..-]
10LACFFILIAET
HERESPOSUIT

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To Publius Septimius Geta Augustus [---](all erased) ; Marcus Cornelius Bassus Servianus, excellent man (i.e. of equestrian status), deceased, ordered erection (scil. of the monument); Cornelia Servianilla, splendid woman, (i.e. of senatorial status), his daughter and heir, set it up.

Commentary

M. Cornelius Bassus Seruianus: PIR C 1332, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/4842.

Cornelia Seruianilla: PIR C 1500, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/4815.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 443, whence IRT, 2009, 443, whence EDH 059346; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 834)

   Fig. 2. Face: Tantillo (2005)


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