Description: Moulded base
(w:
0.65 x h:
1.58 x d:
0.66) of brown limestone, the lower part badly damaged.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel
(die w:
0.33 x h:
0.55).
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, in one of the upper tiers of the cavea.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Interpretive
Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) M(arco) Aurelio
[Anto]nino Aug(usto) Pio
[trib(uniciae) p]otest(atis) IIII pr[o]co(n)s(uli)
[Imp(eratoris) C]aes(aris) L(uci) Septimi Seueri
5[Pii Per]tinacis Aug(usti) Arab(ici)
Ạḍịabe[n]ici Parthici
[ma]ximi felicissimi
p(atris) p(atriae) filio
[Cur]ia Ulpia
10[ex] uoto statuit
Diplomatic
IMPCAESMAURELIO
[....]NINOAUGPIO
[......]OTESTIIIIPR[.]COS
[.....]AESLSEPTIMISEUERI
5[......]TINACISAUGARAB
...ABE[.]ICIPARTHICI
[..]XIMIFELICISSIMI
PPFILIO
[...]IAULPIA
10[..]UOTOSTATUIT
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius [Anto]ninus Augustus Pius, holding [tribunician] power for the fourth time, proconsul, son
of [emperor] Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus [Pius Per]tinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor
in Parthia, most fortunate, father of the country; the [Cur]ia Ulpia set this up [in accordance with] a vow.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1950, 74, note d, whence AE 1950.163d; IRT, 1952, 421, whence IRT, 2009, 421, whence EDH 021982; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. View: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 268 Lastre)
Fig. 2. View: Tantillo (2006)
Fig. 3. Face: Tantillo (2003)
