Description: Rectangular base
(w:
0.51 x h:
0.93 x d:
0.50) of grey brown limestone. Uniform with 390, 402, 433.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel
(die, w:
0.29 x h:
0.65).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.03-0.04.
Date: Between 10 Dec 199 and 9 Dec 200: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, in the exedra at the SE angle.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Interpretive
Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) M(arco) Aurelio
Antonino Pio
Aug(usto) trib(unicia) potest(ate) III
Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) L(uci) Septimi
5Seueri Pii Pertina-
cis Aug(usti) Arabici
Adiab(enici) Part(hici) max(imi)
felicissimi p(atris) p(atriae) fil(io)
M(arcus) Calpurnius Geta
10Attianus et
M(arcus) Calpurnius Attia-
nus fil(ius) numini
eorum deuotissimi
( vac. ) posuerunt ( vac. )
Diplomatic
IMPCAESMAURELIO
ANTONINOPIO
AUGTRIBPOTESTIII
IMPCAESLSEPTIMI
5SEUERIPIIPERTINA
CISAUGARABICI
ADIABPARTMAX
FELICISSIMIPPFIL
MCALPURNIUSGETA
10ATTIANUSET
MCALPURNIUSATTIA
NUSFILNUMINI
EORUMDEUOTISSIMI
POSUERUNT
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Augustus, holding tribunician power for the third time, son of emperor Caesar
Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia, most fortunate,
father of the country; Marcus Calpurnius Geta Attianus and Marcus Calpurnius Attianus, his son, being deeply devoted to their
divine will, set this up.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 419, whence IRT, 2009, 419, whence EDH 059328; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 919)
Fig. 2. Tantillo (2005)
Fig. 3. Face: Tantillo (2005)
Fig. 4. Face: Tantillo (2005)
