Description: Limestone
block broken at right and below
w:
1.40 x h:
0.67 x d:
0.23
Text:
Inscribed on the face
Letters: 0.12
Date: 198 CE
Findspot: Wadi Zemzem:
Gheriat el-Garbia: found in a marabout, near the fort.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Tripoli Castle
Interpretive
[I]mpp(eratoribus) Caess(aribus) L(ucio) Se[ptimio Seuero Pio Pertina-]
ce Aug(usto) et M(arco) Aur[elio Antonino Aug(usto) et P(ublio)] ⟦ [Sep-]
timio Geta Cae[s](are)⟧ [ Aug(usto) Q(uinto) Anicio Fausto leg(ato)]
Au⟦g⟧gg(ustorum) pr(o) pr(aetore) co(n)s(ule) u[exillatio leg(ionis) III Aug(ustae) P(iae) U(indicis)]
Diplomatic
[.]MPPCAESSLSE[......................-]
CEAUGETMAUR[..................]⟦[...-]
TIMIOGETACAE[.]⟧[...................]
AU⟦G⟧GGPRPRCOSU[....................]
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
In the time of the Emperors Caesars Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
and Publius Septimius Geta Caesar (erased) Augustus, and Quintus Anicius Faustus propraetorian legate of the Augusti, consul: de[tachment of the Third Legion Augusta
Pia Vindex ?built this]
Bibliography: Di Vita, 1966 107-111; plate 42a AE 1967.539; R. Haensch, in Mackensen, 2011 336-343, whence EDH 015181
Images
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