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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0887. Fragmentary dedication to Septimius Severus

Description: On a stone (block ) built into an ancient wall.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Not recorded.

Date: 193-211 CE (reign)

Findspot: Wādī Sawfajjīn: Middle Lower Sofeggin Basin: Bir Tarsin (map ref. Q 623325). Recorded about 1925 by G. Martinotti.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Fidnspot (1925): a search of the area in 1949 revealed no traces.

Interpretive

Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) L(ucio) Septimio Seuero [---]

Diplomatic

IMPCAESLSEPTIMIOSEUERO[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus [ . . .

Bibliography: Manuale, 1914 ; IRT, 1952, 887, whence IRT, 2009, 887, whence EDH 059732

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