Description: Sandstone
block (w:
1.10 x h:
0.655 x d:
0.44)
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular tabella
(die, 0.915
0.535).
Letters: 0.052-0.056.
Date: CE 201: GODOT (titulature)
Findspot:
Bu Njem:
Fort; from the south gate; found in 1972
Original location: Over the South gate of the camp
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum
(Inv. no. 72-52)
Interpretive
Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) L(ucio) Septimio
Seuero Pio Pertina-
ci 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) An-
5tonino Aug(usto) tr(ibunicia) p(otestate) IIII et
⟦P(ublio)⟧ Sept(imio) ⟦G̣ẹṭạẹ⟧ Caes(ari) Aug(usto) Q(uinto) Anicio
Fausto leg(ato) Augg(ustorum) co(n)s(ulari) ⟦ ḷẹg̣(ionis) ỊỊỊ Ạụg̣(ustae) P̣(iae) Ụ(indicis)⟧
Diplomatic
IMPCAESLSEPTIMIO
SEUEROPIOPERTINA
CIAUGTRPIXIMP COSIIPPET
IMPCAESMAURELAN
5TONINOAUGTRPIIIIET
⟦P⟧SEPT⟦.....⟧CAESAUGQANICIO
FAUSTOLEGAUGGCOS⟦...........⟧
2: There is a space left blank for the number of imperial salutations.
6: The first initial is definitely P.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
For 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 emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, holding tribunician
power for the fourth time, consul, and 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: Rebuffat, 1973 99-120 whence AE 1976.697, EDCS 09300556
Images
None available (2021).
