Description: Inscribed marble
balustrade blocks
(each originally w:
3.44 x h:
0.88 x d:
0.65). There were
originally 42 blocks, of which 28 survive complete and 11 in part, recomposed by
Caputo.
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: 0.27.
Date: a: CE 210: GODOT b: CE 216: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Severianum:
Severan Basilicaa. From the lower order of the interior colonnades.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Interpretive
east
Imperator Caesar Lucius Septimius [Seuerus Pius] Pert[inax Aug(ustus) Arabicus Adiabenicus Parthicus maximus Brittanicus]
max[imus pontif]ex maximus [tribuniciae] potestatis decem et [o]cties imperator duodecies co(n)s(ul) ter pater patriae proco(n)s(ul)
coepit et ex maiore parte [perf]ecit Imp(erator) Caes(ar) di[ui] Se[pti]mi [S]eueri Pii Arabici Adiabenici Parth[i]ci max[imi
B]rita[nnici maximi] fil[ius] west
diui Marci Antonini Pii Germanici Sarmatici nepos diui Antonini Pii pronepos diui Hadriani adnepos diui Traiani Parthici et
diui Neruae adnepos Imp(erator) Ca[e]s(ar) Marcus Aurellius Antoninus Pius Aug(ustus) Parthicus max(imus) Britannicus max[imus
G]ermanicus maximus pontifex maximus tribuniciae potesta[t]is dec[e]mnouies imperator ter co(n)s(ul) [qu]ater pater pa[triae
pr]oco(n)s(ul) perfici c[urauit]
Diplomatic
east
IMPERATORCAESARLUCIUSSEPTIMIUS[...........]PERT[.....................................................]MAX[..........]EXMAXIMUS[...........]POTESTATISDECEMET[.]CTIESIMPERATORDUODECIESCOSTERPATERPATRIAEPROCOSCOEPITETEXMAIOREPARTE[....]ECITIMPCAESDI[..]SE[...]MI[.]EUERIPIIARABICIADIABENICIPARTH[.]CIMAX[....]RITA[...........]FIL[...] west
DIUIMARCIANTONINIPIIGERMANICISARMATICINEPOSDIUIANTONINIPIIPRONEPOSDIUIHADRIANIADNEPOSDIUITRAIANIPARTHICIETDIUINERUAEADNEPOSIMPCA[.]SMARCUSAURELLIUSANTONINUSPIUSAUGPARTHICUSMAXBRITANNICUSMAX[.....]ERMANICUSMAXIMUSPONTIFEXMAXIMUSTRIBUNICIAEPOTESTA[.]ISDEC[.]MNOUIESIMPERATORTERCOS[..]ATERPATERPA[.......]OCOSPERFICIC[......]
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
The emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius [Severus Pius] Pert[inax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor
in Parthia, greatest victor in Britannia, ] chief priest, [holding tribunician] power for the eighteenth time, acclaimed victor
twelve times, consul [three times, father] of the country, proconsul, began and substantially completed (scil. this); emperor
Caesar, son of deified Septimius Severus Pius, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia, greatest
victor in Britannia, grandson of deified Marcus Antoninus, victor in Germany, victor in Sarmatia, great grandson of deified
Antoninus Pius, great great grandson of deified Hadrian, great great great grandson of deified Trajan, victor in Parthia and
of deified Nerva, emperor Caesar Marcus Aurellius Antoninus Pius Augustus, greatest victor in Parthia, greatest victor in
Britannia, greatest victor in Germany, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the nineteenth time, acclaimed victor three
times, consul four times, father of the country, proconsul, [arranged] for its completion.
Bibliography: Romanelli, 1925, 109 , whence AE 1926.157; Guidi, 1929, 231 ff., plates B and C, figs 3, 4; also, probably, CIL VIII, suppl.4, 1916 22671 a; IRT, 1952, 428, whence IRT, 2009, 428, whence EDH 025522; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 314)
