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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1226. Honours for Severan emperors

Description: Limestone block w: 0.56 x h: 0.58 x d: 0.22
Text: Inscribed on the face within a moulded border
Letters: 0.05-0.055

Date: 198-211 CE (reign)

Findspot: Gasr Zerzi: lying outside the entrance to the Gasr
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Impp(eratoribus) Caes(are) Lucio Septimio Seue-
ro Pio Pertinace et M(arco) Aurelio
Antonino et ⟦[P(ublio)]⟧ Septimio
⟦G̣[eta]e⟧ Caess⟦s⟧(aribus) Augg⟦g⟧(ustis) toti
5usque domus diuin(ae)
[⟦leg(io) III Aug(usta) ⟧?]

Diplomatic

IMPPCAESLUCIOSEPTIMIOSEUE
ROPIOPERTINACEETMAURELIO
ANTONINOET⟦[.]⟧SEPTIMIO
⟦.[...]E⟧CAESS⟦S⟧AUGG⟦G⟧TOTI
5USQUEDOMUSDIUIN
[.........]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

For the emperors Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax, and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus and Publius Septimius Geta (erased), Caesars, Augusti and (scil. the fortune of) all the divine household, ?the Third Legion Augusta (erased)

Bibliography: Brogan-Reynolds, 1964 1, pp. 43-4, whence EDCS 74000013

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