Description:
Panel (w:
1.57 x h:
0.57 x d:
0.15)
of grey limestone, much weathered.
Text: Inscribed within a tabella ansata
(die, 1.30
0.47).
Letters: Rough lapidary capitals with many ligatures: 0.065-0.075.
Date: CE 201: GODOT (titulature)
Findspot:
Bu Njem:
Fort; from the West gate (map ref. X 5206)
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle.
Interpretive
Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) L(ucio) Septimio Seuero
Pio Pert(inaci) Aug(usto) tr(ibunicia) p(otestate) IX imp(eratori) ( vac. ) co(n)s(uli) II p(atri) p(atriae) et
Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) M(arco) Aurel(io) Antonino
Aug(usto) tr(ibunicia) p(otestate) IIII et ⟦L(ucio)⟧ Sept(imio) ⟦[Getae]⟧ Caes(ari) Aug(usto)
5 Q(uinto) Anicio Fausto leg(ato) Augg(ustorum) co(n)s(ulari) ⟦ [leg(ionis)] [III Aug(ustae) P(iae) U(indicis)]⟧
Diplomatic
IMPCAESLSEPTIMIOSEUERO
PIOPERTAUGTRPIXIMP COSIIPPET
IMPCAESMAURELANTONINO
AUGTRPIIIIET⟦L⟧SEPT⟦[.....]⟧CAESAUG
5QANICIOFAUSTOLEGAUGGCOS⟦[............]⟧
2: There is a space left blank for the number of imperial salutations.
5: Titles erased after the damnatio of the legion in 238.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, holding tribunician power for the ninth time, acclaimed
victor? times, consul twice, father of the country, and to emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, holding tribunician
power for the fourth time, consul, and to Lucius (erased) Septimius Geta (erased) Caesar Augustus set up under Quintus Anicius Faustus, legate of the Augusti, consular commander of legion III Augusta, Pia,
Vindex (erased from legion).
Bibliography: CIL VIII suppl.1, 1891., 10992; Bartoccini, 1928a, 50, with fig; IRT, 1952, 914, whence IRT, 2009, 914, whence EDH 059754; Rebuffat, 1973 103; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 1986)
Fig. 2. Above,
913; below,
914: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 1985)
Fig. 3. Above:
913; below, from left:
872,
914,
654: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
