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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0448. Fragmentary dedication to Severus Alexander

Description: Five fragments (two adjoining) from a narrow marble panel (0.65, no edges surviving); probably uniform with 451.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.10.

Date: CE 222-235 (reign)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio V, Theatre.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[I]mp(eratori) [Caes(ari)]
M(arco) Au[re]lli[o]
[Seu]ero
[Alexa]ndro
5[Pio Fe]lici
[Aug(usto)]
[Le]pcitan[i pu]ḅḷịc̣ẹ

Diplomatic

[.]MP[....]
MAU[..]LLI[.]
[...]ERO
[.....]NDRO
5[.....]LICI
[....]
[..]PCITAN[...].....

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To emperor [Caesar] Marcus Aurellius Severus Alexander, [Pius], Felix, [Augustus]; the Lepcitanians publicly.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 448, whence IRT, 2009, 448, whence EDH 059351; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXI.5)