Description:
Semicircular exedra of soft yellow limestone. One block is missing from ll. 1 and 2, and those on the right-hand side of ll. 3 and 4 are badly weathered. 
Text:
Inscribed around the inner face. Total length of inscription, 4.80. 
Letters:
Rustic capitals: ll. 1-2, 0.07-0.075; l. 3, 0.05; l. 4, 0.04. 
Date:
A.D. 209-211 (reign) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, standing in front of the Temple of Magna Mater. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
, 128 ff.; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1926:158; Bartoccini, Rivista di Archeologia cristiana della Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia sacra, VIII:24. 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) 
Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) L(ucio) Septimio Seu[ero Pio Pertinaci Aug]usto Arabico Adiabenico Parthico m[axi]mo et
Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) M(arco) Aurellio [Antonino August]o et 〚 P(ublio) S[eptimio Getae nobilissim]o [Cae]s(ari)〛 et Iuliae Aug[ustae matri Augustorum]
et cas[t]roru[m ·· ? ··]
M(arcus) [·· c. 12··] Aṣper Aurelianus sacerdotalis prouinciae Africae numini [maiestatique eorum deuotus ·· ? ··]
IMPCAESLSEPTIMIOSEV[······················]VSTOARABICOADIABENICOPARTHICOM[····]MOET
IMPCAESMAVRELLIO[················]OET〚PS[·························]O[····]S〛ETIVLIAEAVG[·······················]
ETCAS[··]RORV[···· ? ··]
M[·· c. 12··]A·PERAVRELIANVSSACERDOTALISPROVINCIAEAFRICAENVMINI[····························· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
ari
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
ucio
</ex>
</expan>
Septimio
Seu
<supplied reason="lost" >
ero
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Pio
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Pertinaci
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Aug
</supplied>
usto
Arabico
Adiabenico
Parthico
m
<supplied reason="lost" >
axi
</supplied>
mo
et
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
ari
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arco
</ex>
</expan>
Aurellio
<supplied reason="lost" >
Antonino
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
August
</supplied>
o
et
<del>
<expan>
<abbr>
P
</abbr>
<ex>
ublio
</ex>
</expan>
S
<supplied reason="lost" >
eptimio
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Getae
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
nobilissim
</supplied>
o
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Cae
</supplied>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ari
</ex>
</expan>
</del>
et
Iuliae
Aug
<supplied reason="lost" >
ustae
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
matri
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Augustorum
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
et
cas
<supplied reason="lost" >
t
</supplied>
roru
<supplied reason="lost" >
m
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arcus
</ex>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="12" unit="character" precision="circa" />
A
<unclear reason="" >
s
</unclear>
per
Aurelianus
sacerdotalis
prouinciae
Africae
numini
<supplied reason="lost" >
maiestatique
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
eorum
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
deuotus
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

2, P. Septimius Geta: Erased after damnatio in 212.

Translation:

To Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimus Se[verus Pius Pertinax Aug]ustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia, and to emperor Caesar Marcus Aurellius [Antoninus Augustus] and to Publius S[eptimius Geta most noble] Caesar(erased from Publius - Caesar) and to Julia Augusta [mother of the Augusti] and of the camps [·· ? ··]; Marcus [·· ? ··] Asper Aurelianus, former priest of the cult of the emperor for the province of Africa, [devoted] to [their] divine power and [majesty ·· ? ··]

Commentary:

l. 1. From 198.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVII.1)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVII.1)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR.XVII.2)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR.XVII.2)

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