35. ?Dedication to Septimius Severus
- Description:
- Upper part of a moulded marble base (surviving, w: 0.64 x h: 0.28 x d: 0.25).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Local second to third century capitals: 0.045.
- Date:
- A.D. 198-211 (reign).
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Found in the street in front of the Antonine Temple.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- now placed on the wall of the adjacent fountain.
- Bibliography:
- Not previously published. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
I
</supplied>
mp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratori
</ex>
Caesari
Imperato
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
r
</supplied>
is
Caesaris
Luci
Septi
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
mi
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Seueri
Pii
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
filio
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
To Emperor Caesar, [son of] Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius [Severus Pius] [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.VII.18)
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