Description: Ten fragments, probably all from the same marble
panel
(the largest, w:
0.35 x h:
0.32 x d:
0.035, top edge survives).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: 0.08.
Date: CE 209-10 (titulature)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Theatre.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Interpretive
a-i
(The following reconstruction of the text is possible; it assumes a date after the assumption by the emperors of the title
Britannicus in 210.)
[( vac. ) Im]perạ[t]or[i C]aesạ[ri Imperatoris Caesa]rị[s ( vac. )]
[L(uci) Se]ptimi S[eueri] Pii P̣[ertinacis Augusti Ar]ab[ici]
[Adiab]enic[i Par]thi[ci max(imi) B]ri[tannici max(imi) filio]
( vac. ) et [Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) M(arci) Aureli Antonini Aug(usti)]
5[P]ịi Pa[r]thi[ci maximi Britannici maximi] ⟦[fratri
P(ublio) Septimio Getae Pio Augusto]⟧ [---] j
Diplomatic
a-i
(The following reconstruction of the text is possible; it assumes a date after the assumption by the emperors of the title
Britannicus in 210.)
[.....]PER.[.]OR[..]AES.[..................]R.[....]
[...]PTIMIS[.....]PII.[..................]AB[...]
[.....]ENIC[....]THI[......]RI[...............]
ET[.........................]
5[.].IPA[.]THI[........................]⟦[..............................]⟧[---] j
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(Translation of the conjectured reconstruction) To emperor Caesar, son of emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene,
greatest victor in Parthia, greatest victor in Britain, and brother of Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus,
Pius, greatest victor in Britain, Publius Septimius Geta Pius Augustus [---]
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 445, whence IRT, 2009, 445, whence EDH 059348; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. From left:
377,
445a; Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1671 Leica)
Fig. 2. From left:
445a,
495; Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 290 Lastre)
Fig. 3. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXI.7)
Fig. 4. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 49.XII.19)
