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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0909. Fragmentary dedication to Septimius Severus and sons

Description: Top left-hand corner fragment of a panel. No dimensions recorded.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals.

Date: CE 209-211 (reign)

Findspot: Ghadames: Found in an Arab house in 1913.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1913)

Interpretive

Impp⟦p⟧(eratoribus) Ca[es(aribus) ---]
Seuero Pio [---]
Parth(ico) max(imo) [---]

Diplomatic

IMPP⟦P⟧CA[..---]
SEUEROPIO[---]
PARTHMAX[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To the emperors Caesars [---] Severus Pius [---] greatest victor in Parthia [---]

Commentary

Line 1: erasure after the damnatio of Geta in 212

Bibliography: Pavoni, 1913 315 and fig. 19; IRT, 1952, 909, whence IRT, 2009, 909, whence EDH 059749

Images

None available (2021).