Description: Block (w:
1.20 x h:
0.71 x d:
0.40) of grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a narrow moulded border.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: 0.05-0.06.
Date: CE 201: GODOT (titulature)
Findspot:
Bu Njem:
Fort, from the North Gate.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum
Interpretive
Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) L(ucio) Septimio Seuero
Pio Pertinaci Aug(usto) tr(ibunicia) pot(estate) VIIII
imp(eratori) ( vac. ) co(n)s(uli) II p(atri) p(atriae) et Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) M(arco)
Aurelio Antonino Aug(usto) tr(ibunicia) p(otestate)
5 ⟦IIII⟧ et [L(ucio)] Septimio ⟦[Getae]⟧ Caes(ari)
Aug(usto) Q(uinto) Anicio Fausto leg(ato)
Augustorum consulare
⟦leg(ionis) III Aug(ustae) P(iae) U(indicis)⟧
Diplomatic
IMPCAESLSEPTIMIOSEUERO
PIOPERTINACIAUGTRPOTVIIII
IMP COSIIPPETIMPCAESM
AURELIOANTONINOAUGTRP
5⟦IIII⟧ET[..]SEPTIMIO⟦[.....]⟧CAES
AUGQANICIOFAUSTOLEG
AUGUSTORUMCONSULARE
⟦LEGIIIAUGPU⟧
3: There is a space left blank for the number of imperial salutations.
5: IIII apparently erased in error.
8: 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 (erased), and to [Lucius] 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, 1881 6; mentioned ; IRT, 1952, 916, whence IRT, 2009, 916, whence EDH 059756; Rebuffat, 1973 101-2; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Above,
915; below,
916: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 56 Lastre)
Fig. 2. Face, 2008 (Jona Lendering,
Wikimedia)
