36. Dedication to Geta

Description:
Impression left by a fragment from the lower part of a lost marble panel (approx. w: 0.34 x h: 0.39). 
Text:
Original text inscribed within a moulded border.  
Letters:
Capitals: 0.07.  
Date:
Between 10th Dec. A.D. 198 and 9th Dec. 199. (titulature)  
Findspot:
Sabratha: Office Baths, re-used in the fourth century pavement of the S Caldarium.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
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) 
[P(ublio) Septimio Getae nobilissimo Caesari]
[Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) L(uci) Septimi Seueri Pii Pertinacis]
[Aug(usti) Arab]ici Ad[iabenici Parthici maximi]
[trib(unicia) pot(estate)] VII imp(eratoris) X[I co(n)s(ulis) II p(atris) p(atriae) proco(n)s(ulis) filio et Imp(eratoris)]
5[Antonini Au]g(usti) fratri [·· ? ··]
[··]
[·········]
[·········]ICIAD[··················]
[·····]VIIIMPX[···············]
5[············]GFRATRI[·· ? ··]
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<expan>
<abbr>
P
</abbr>
<ex>
ublio
</ex>
</expan>
Septimio
Getae
nobilissimo
Caesari
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<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratoris
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
aris
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
uci
</ex>
</expan>
Septimi
Seueri
Pii
Pertinacis
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Arab
</supplied>
ici
Ad
<supplied reason="lost" >
iabenici
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Parthici
maximi
</supplied>
<lb n="4" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
unicia
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
pot
</abbr>
<ex>
estate
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<num value="7" >
VII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratoris
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="11" >
X
<supplied reason="lost" >
I
</supplied>
</num>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ulis
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="2" >
II
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atris
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atriae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
proco
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ulis
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
filio
et
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratoris
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<lb n="5" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Antonini
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Au
</supplied>
g
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
fratri
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[To Publius Septimius Geta, most noble Caesar, son of Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus, Pius, Pertinax, Augustus] Victor in Arabia, Victor in Adiabene, [greatest Victor in Parthia, holding tribunician power for the] seventh time, acclaimed victor [eleven times, consul twice, father of the country, proconsul and] brother [of Emperor Antoninus] Augustus [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

l. 4. trib. pot. VII. 10 Dec. 198 to 9 Dec. 199.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.IX.40)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.IX.40)

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