400. Posthumous dedication to Septimius Severus

Description:
Part of a polygonal marble base (width incomplete; w: 0.40 x h: 0.25 x d: 0.35), uniform with 404 and 429.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face with traces of a moulding above and below.  
Letters:
Rustic capitals: 0.025. 
Date:
A.D. 216 (titulature)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Severan Basilica found built into the steps of the South apse. 
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) 
[Diuo] Seuero patri
[Imper]atoris Caes(aris) M(arci) Aurelli Antonini Pii Felicis
[Aug(usti) P]arthici maximi Brittanici maximi Germanici
[maximi] pontificis maximi tribuniciae potest-
5[atis X]VIII imperatori III co(n)s(ulis) IIII p(atris) p(atriae) (sic)
[Le]pcitani Septimiani
[·····]SEVEROPATRI
[······]ATORISCAESMAVRELLIANTONINIPIIFELICIS
[······]ARTHICIMAXIMIBRITTANICIMAXIMIGERMANICI
[·······]PONTIFICISMAXIMITRIBVNICIAEPOTEST
5[·······]VIIIIMPERATORIIIICOSIIIIPP(sic)
[···]PCITANISEPTIMIANI
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Diuo
</supplied>
Seuero
patri
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Imper
</supplied>
atoris
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
aris
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arci
</ex>
</expan>
Aurelli
Antonini
Pii
Felicis
<lb n="3" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
P
</supplied>
arthici
maximi
Brittanici
maximi
Germanici
<lb n="4" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
maximi
</supplied>
pontificis
maximi
tribuniciae
potest
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
atis
</supplied>
<num value="19" >
<supplied reason="lost" >
X
</supplied>
VIII
</num>
imperatori
<num value="3" >
III
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ulis
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="4" >
IIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atris
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atriae
</ex>
</expan>
<note>
sic
</note>
<lb n="6" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Le
</supplied>
pcitani
Septimiani
</ab>

Translation:

To [deified] Severus, father of Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurellius Antoninus Pius Felix [Augustus], greatest victor in Parthia, greatest victor in Brittania, [greatest] victor in Germany, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the nineteenth time, acclaimed victor three times, consul four times, father of the country, the Septimian Lepcitanians.

Commentary:

ll. 4-5. trib. pot. XVIIII - 10 Dec. 215 - 9 Dec. 216.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1530 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1530 Leica)

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