Fragmentary building inscription under Septimius Severus
created: Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
source date: CE 198-210.
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...], 79ff., pl. VIII b; [...], 396, whence [...], 396; [...] 60; [...] 059316; [...] , whence [...] 1991.1619. See also [...] 114-115, whence [...] 2005.1662; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

[...] Imperatoris Caesaris Luci Septimi Seueri Pii Pertinacis Augusti Arabici Adiabenici Parthici maximi pontificis maximi tribuniciae potestatis X[...] imperatoris consulis patris patriae et Imperatoris Caesaris Marci Aurelli Antonini [...] et Iuliae Augustae matris Augusti et castrorum totiusque diuinae domus [...] Rusonianus flamen augur IIuir quinquennalis cellam frigidarii et cry [sic]pta [...] ruina conlabsas ex pollicitatione muneris gladiatori ob honorem quinquennalitatis p[...] permissu sacratissimi principis diui Marci Antonini fili a fundamentis [...] marmoribus et columnis exornauit statuam Aesculapii nouam [...] restituit ceteras refecit ex multis aliis muneribus rei publicae suae conlatis et [...]uli nomine ui[...]iti[...]

[Fragment of uncertain position]

[...]bus [...]

[c]ry/[pta]

a.[...]of Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia, chief priest, holding tribunician power for at least ten times, acclaimed victor [...] times, consul [...] times father of the country, and of Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurellius Antoninus and of Julia Augusta mother of Augustus and of the camps and of the whole divine household, [...] Rusonianus, flamen [priest], augur [priest] quinquennial duovir gave the main chamber of the cold bath and [...] which had collapsed in ruins, instead of the gladiatorial show promised on account of the office of the quinquennial duumvirate [...] with the permission of the most sacred emperor, son of deified Marcus Antoninus, from the foundations [...]; he adorned it with marbles and columns, gave a new statue of Aesculapius, restored [...] others new among many other generous gifts made to his city and [...] in the name [...].

b. [Not usefully translatable]

a) Line 1: trib. pot. X? After 202; but VI or VII possible - 198 (after the assumption of the title Parthicus) - 9 Dec. 199.

a) Line 5: M. Antoninus filius. This is Commodus.