Description: Rectangular base
(w:
0.49 x h:
1.06 x d:
0.48)
of hard but badly pitted grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel
(die, w:
0.25 x h:
0.73).
Letters: Rustic capitals: av. 0.04.
Date: CE 198-209. (titulature)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, Temple of Hercules (see 433).
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
1-2: From 198; erased after damnatio in 212.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Publius Septimius Geta Caesar (all erased) 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 Septimian Lepcitanians set this up publicly in accordance with a vow.
Commentary
Line 8-9. line Septimius Severus was Parthicus maximus from 198.
Discussion: Tantillo (2010), 287, 298-9
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 435, whence IRT, 2009, 435, whence EDH 059339; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 842)