Description: Moulded base (w:
0.60 x h:
1.20 x d:
0.57) of brown limestone, the lower part broken;
the surface of which is much abraded.
Text: Inscribed within a moulded panel (die, w:
0.10 x h:
0.65),
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.045-0.05.
Date: CE 203 or 204: GODOT or GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Theatre.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
7: Imp. XI, 198; imp. XII is a possible reading.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To [Emperor Caesar Lucius] Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, [Uictor in Arabia, victor in Adiab]en[e, ], greatest [Uictor in Parthia, chief priest], holding tribunician [power for the --- time], acclaimed victor eleven (?twelve) times, [consul --- times], proconsul; the Lepcitanians [---]
Bibliography: Romanelli, 1925, 135-6; IRT, 1952, 399, whence IRT, 2009, 399, whence EDH 059319; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 342 Leica)