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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0420. Dedication to Caracalla

Description: Moulded base (w: 0.65 x h: 1.56 x d: 0.62) of grey brown limestone. A final spray follows the text; on the right-hand face, a patera in relief.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.30 x h: 0.66).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.04-0.03.

Date: Between 10 Dec. CE 200 - 9 Dec. CE 201: GODOT (internal date)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio V, Theatre, near the West end of the orchestra.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) M(arco) Aurelio
Antonino Augusto Pio
tribuniciae potestatis
IIII proco(n)s(uli) Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris)
5L(uci) Septimi Seueri Pii
Pertinacis Augusti
Arabici Adiabenici
Parthici maximi
felicissimi p(atris) p(atriae) filio
10Curia Pia Seueriana
ex uoto
statuit

Diplomatic

IMPCAESMAURELIO
ANTONINOAUGUSTOPIO
TRIBUNICIAEPOTESTATIS
IIIIPROCOSIMPCAES
5LSEPTIMISEUERIPII
PERTINACISAUGUSTI
ARABICIADIABENICI
PARTHICIMAXIMI
FELICISSIMIPPFILIO
10CURIAPIASEUERIANA
EXUOTO
STATUIT

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus Pius, holding tribunician power for the fourth time, proconsul, 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; the Curia Pia Severiana set this up in accordance with a vow.

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1950, 74, note c, whence AE 1950.163c; IRT, 1952, 420, whence IRT, 2009, 420, whence EDH 021979; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. 266 Lastre)