Description: Semicircular exedra of soft yellow limestone. One block is missing from line 1 and 2, and those on the right-hand side of
line 3 and 4 are badly weathered.
Text: Inscribed around the inner face. Total length of inscription, 4.80.
Letters: Rustic capitals: line 1-2, 0.07-0.075; line 3, 0.05; line 4, 0.04.
Date: CE 198-209 (titulature)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, standing in front of the Temple of Magna Mater.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Interpretive
Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) L(ucio) Septimio Seu[ero Pio Pertinaci Aug]usto Arabico Adiabenico Parthico m[axi]mo et
Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) M(arco) Aurellio [Antonino August]o et ⟦ P(ublio) S[eptimio Getae nobilissim]o [Cae]s(ari)⟧ et Iuliae
Aug[ustae matri Augustorum]
et cas[t]roru[m ---]
M(arcus) [c. 12] Aṣper Aurelianus sacerdotalis prouinciae Africae numini [maiestatique eorum deuotus ---]
Diplomatic
IMPCAESLSEPTIMIOSEU[..................]USTOARABICOADIABENICOPARTHICOM[...]MOET
IMPCAESMAURELLIO[..............]OET⟦PS[......................]O[...]S⟧ETIULIAEAUG[....................]
ETCAS[.]RORU[.---]
M[············]A.PERAURELIANUSSACERDOTALISPROUINCIAEAFRICAENUMINI[........................---]
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimus Se[Uerus Pius Pertinax Aug]ustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor
in Parthia, and to emperor Caesar Marcus Aurellius [Antoninus Augustus] and to Publius S[eptimius Geta most noble] Caesar(erased from Publius - Caesar) and to Julia Augusta [mother of the Augusti] and of the camps [---]; Marcus [---] Asper Aurelianus, former priest of the cult of the emperor for the province of Africa, [devoted] to [their] divine power
and [majesty ---]
Bibliography: Romanelli, 1925, 128 ff., whence AE 1926.158; Bartoccini, 1931, 24; IRT, 1952, 397, whence IRT, 2009, 397, whence EDH 025525; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XVII.1)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR.XVII.2)
