Description:
Panel (w:
0.99 x h:
0.37) of cream marble.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Late form of Rustic capitals: 0.04-0.05.
Date: CE 265: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: ,
From the Forum Severianum
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
Interpretive
Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) P(ublio) Licinio Gallieno Germanico Pio Fel(ici) Aug(usto) pont(ifici) max(imo)
Germanico max(imo) trib(unicia) pot(estate) XIII imp(eratori) XII co(n)s(uli) VI p(atri) p(atriae) proco(n)s(uli) et
Corneliae Saloninae sanctissimae Augustae n(ostrae)
( vac. ) coniugi Gallieni Aug(usti) n(ostri) ( vac. )
5( vac. ) Lepc(itani) Sept(imiani) Saloniniani publ(ice) ( vac. )
Diplomatic
IMPCAESPLICINIOGALLIENOGERMANICOPIOFELAUGPONTMAX
GERMANICOMAXTRIBPOTXIIIIMPXIICOSVIPPPROCOSET
CORNELIAESALONINAESANCTISSIMAEAUGUSTAEN
CONIUGIGALLIENIAUGN
5 LEPCSEPTSALONINIANIPUBL
4: Degrassi notes correctly that, as printed in IRT, this line was omitted after line 3.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To emperor Caesar Publius Licinius Gallienus, victor in Germany, Pius, Felix, Augustus, chief priest, greatest victor in Germany,
holding tribunician power for the thirteenth time, acclaimed victor twelve times, consul six times, father of the country,
proconsul, and to Cornelia Salonina our most virtuous Augusta, wife of Gallienus, our Augustus; the Lepcitanians Septimian
and Saloninian (scil. set this up) publicly.
Bibliography: Goodchild, 1949 31, whence AE 1950.208; IRT, 1952, 456, with correction, Degrassi A., 1954, , from which Reynolds, 1955, 143, whence IRT, 2009, 456, whence EDH 022060; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1562 Leica)
Fig. 2. On display: Tantillo (2004)
Fig. 3. On display: Tantillo (2006)
