Dedication to Severus Alexander
created: Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
source date: 222-235 CE
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Imperatori Caesari Marco Aurelio Seuero Pio Felici Augusto et castrorum Marcus A[...] eriane praepositus uexillationis legionis eiusdem burgum a solo per eandem uexillationem instituit

To emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander [erased] Pius Felix Augustus and Julia Mamaea Augusta, mother of Augustus [erased] and of the camps. Marcus A[...] centurion of Legion III Augusta Pia Vindex [erased] Severiana, placed in command of the detachment of the same legion, built the fort from its foundations, using the same detachment.

Lines 1, 3-4: Erased after Alexander's damnatio in 235.

Line 6: It is not certain whether the erasure of the name of the legion is deliberate and is to be attributed to its damnatio in 238.