Description: Broken panel (w:
1.28 x h:
0.80 x d:
0.50) of grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed within a moulded border.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: 0.07.
Date: CE 201: GODOT (titulature)
Findspot:
Bu Njem:
Fort from the East gate.
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) XI [co(n)s(uli)] II p(atri) p(atriae) et
Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) M(arco) A[urel(io)] Anto-
5nino Aug(usto) tr(ibunicia) p(otestate) [IIII et ⟦L(ucio)⟧ Sept(imio)]
⟦Getae⟧ Ca[es(ari) Au]g(usto) Q(uinto) Ani-
[c]i[o] Fausto leg(ato) Augg(ustorum) ⟦co(n)s(ulari) leg(ionis) ⟧ III ⟦ Aug(ustae) P(iae) U(indicis) ⟧
Diplomatic
IMPCAESLSEPTIMIO
SEUEROPIOPERTAUG
TRPIXIMPXI[...]IIPPET
IMPCAESMA[....]ANTO
5NINOAUGTRP[...........]
⟦GETAE⟧CA[....]GQANI
[.]I[.]FAUSTOLEGAUGG⟦COSLEG⟧III⟦AUGPU⟧
7: 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 eleven times, [consul] twice, father of the country, and to emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, holding
tribunician power for the [fourth time, 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 consular).
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 915, whence IRT, 2009, 915, whence EDH 059755; Rebuffat, 1973 102; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1.
915, lines 3-7: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.II.22)
Fig. 2. Above,
915; below,
916: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 56 Lastre)
