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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1057. Dedication to Mars

Description: Stone panel w: 1.835 x h: 0.645 x d: 0.11
Text: Inscribed within an outlined field, w: 1.675 x h: 0.50
Letters: 0.025-0.035

Date: 225 CE: GODOT (internal date)

Findspot: Bu Njem: Temple of Mars; found in 1971, inventory number 71-200.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum

Interpretive

Deo Marti Canapphari Aug(usto)
pro salute et incolumitate domini n(ostri)
Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) diui Septimi Seueri ⟦nepotis⟧
diui Magni Antonini ⟦filii⟧
5M(arci) Aureli Seueri ⟦Alexandri⟧ In-
uicti Pii Felicis Aug(usti) pontificis
maximi trib(uniciae) potestatis IIII co(n)s(ulis)
p(atris) p(atriae) et Iuliae ⟦Mammeae⟧ Aug(ustae) matris
Aug(usti) n(ostri) et castrorum totiusque
10domus diuinae per uexillatio-
nem ⟦leg(ionis) III Aug(ustae) P(iae) U(indicis)⟧ Seuerianae
curante T(ito) Flauio Aproniano ((centurio))
⟦leg(ionis) eiusdem⟧ praeposito uexillationis

Diplomatic

DEOMARTICANAPPHARIAUG
PROSALUTEETINCOLUMITATEDOMININ
IMPCAESDIUISEPTIMISEUERI⟦NEPOTIS⟧
DIUIMAGNIANTONINI⟦FILII⟧
5MAURELISEUERI⟦ALEXANDRI⟧IN
UICTIPIIFELICISAUGPONTIFICIS
MAXIMITRIBPOTESTATISIIIICOS
PPETIULIAE⟦MAMMEAE⟧AUGMATRIS
AUGNETCASTRORUMTOTIUSQUE
10DOMUSDIUINAEPERUEXILLATIO
NEM⟦LEGIIIAUGPU⟧SEUERIANAE
CURANTETFLAUIOAPRONIANO 𐆛
⟦LEGEIUSDEM⟧PRAEPOSITOUEXILLATIONIS

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

To the god Mars Cannaphar Augustus, for the safety and security of our lord Emperor Caesar, grandson of deified Septimius Severus, son (erased) of deified great Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander (erased), invincible, pious, fortunate, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the fourth time, consul, father of the country, and of Julia Mammaea (erased) Augusta, mother of our Augustus and of the camps, and of the whole divine household. (scil. The dedication was made) deploying a company of the Third Legion Augusta, Pia, Vindex(erased), Severiana, under the oversight of Titus Flavius Apronianus, centurion of the same legion, in command of the company.

Bibliography: Rebuffat, 1975 219-220, whence AE 1979.645, EDH 008536.

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Marco Prins, Wikimedia)

   Fig. 2. Face (Kenrick, 2008)