Fragmentary building inscription under Septemius SeverusJ. M. ReynoldsJ. B. Ward-Perkins
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Republished from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British
School at Rome, 1952.
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ArabicEnglishFrenchGermanAncient GreekTransliterated GreekModern GreekHebrewItalianLatinPunicNative Libyan language in Latin scriptTripolitaniaLibyaLeptis Magnamunera2008-09-09ZAconverted using CHET-C2009-05-19RVAdded Figures2009-08-24RVAdded Figures
Description of Monument
Part of a marblepanel, recomposed from fragents 3.800.95, left part missing).
Description of Text
Inscribed on one face.
Description of Letters
Lettering: ll. 1-2, Rustic capitals, 0.05-0.06.
The existing ll. 1-2 have been re-inscribed in the space from which a previous text, in honour of Commodus (see l. 5), has been erased.
ll. 3-8: Second century A.D. capitals, 0.07-0.085.
Date
A.D. 198-210. (titulature)
Locations
Lepcis Magna:
Hadrianic Baths, in the Frigidarium and three fragments in Lepcis Museum.
a.of Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus
Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia,
chief priest, holding tribunician power for at least
ten times, acclaimed victor times, consultimes father of the country, and of Emperor
Caesar Marcus Aurellius Antoninus and of Julia Augusta mother of Augustus and
of the camps and of the whole divine household, Rusonianus, flamen priest,
augur priest quinquennial duovir gave the main chamber of the
cold bath and which had collapsed in ruins, instead of the gladiatorial show promised
on account of the office of the quinquennial duumvirate with the permission of the most sacred emperor, son of deified
Marcus Antoninus, from the foundations ; he adorned it with marbles and columns, gave
a new statue of Aesculapius, restored others new among many other generous gifts made to his city and
in the name .
b. Not usefully translatable
Commentary
a) l. 1. trib. pot. X?. After 202; but VI or VII possible - 198 (after the assumption of the title Parthicus) - 9 Dec. 199.