Description:
panel (w:
1.04 x h:
0.57 x d:
0.19) of grey-brown limestone
Text: Inscribed within a moulded border (die, w:
0.90 x h:
0.44).
Letters: Capitals: line 1-3 (lapidary), 0.055; line 4-9 (simple capitals), 0.035.
Date: 222-235 CE (reign)
Findspot:
Wadi Zemzem:
Gheriat el-Garbia
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle.
Interpretive
Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) M(arco) Aurel(io)
Seue[r]o ⟦[Alexandr]o⟧
Piọ F̣e[l]ịc[i] Aug(usto) ⟦[et Iuliae]
[Mamaeae Augustae matri Aug(usti)]⟧ et cas-
5ṭṛọṛum M(arcus) A[c. 20]
⟦c(enturio) leg(ionis) III Aug(ustae) P(iae) U(indicis) Ṣ[e]u⟧eriane p̣r(a)epo-
situs uex[ill]ationis leg(ionis) eius-
dem burgum [a] solo per eandem
uexillationem instituit
Diplomatic
IMPCAESMAUREL
SEUE[.]O⟦[........]O⟧
PI..E[.].C[.]AUG⟦[........]
[.......................]⟧ETCAS
5....UMMA[····················]
⟦CLEGIIIAUGPU.[.]U⟧ERIANE.REPO
SITUSUEX[...]ATIONISLEGEIUS
DEMBURGUM[.]SOLOPEREANDEM
UEXILLATIONEMINSTITUIT
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus [Alexander] (erased) Pius Felix Augustus [and Julia Mamaea Augusta, mother of Augustus] (erased) and of the camps. Marcus A[--- centurion of Legion III Augusta Pia Vindex (erased) Sev]eriana, placed in command of the detachment of the same legion, built the fort from its foundations, using the same detachment.
Bibliography: CIL VIII, 1881, 3; IRT, 1952, 895, whence Mattingly, 1985 67-70, IRT, 2009, 895, whence EDH 059739; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 679 Leica)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.II.23)
Fig. 3. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.II.24)
Fig. 4. Drawing (March 1914): From left:
896,
897,
895: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. A. 617)
