415. Dedication to Fulvia Pia
- Description:
- Moulded base (w: 0.90 x h: 1.61 x d: 0.45) of cream marble.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.45 x h: 0.56).
- Letters:
- Rustic capitals: av. 0.04.
- Date:
- A.D. 198-210 (titulature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus in the Temple of Liber Pater. Uniform with 410.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Bersanetti, Athenaeum (Studi periodici di Letteratura e Storia dell'Antichità), Pavia XXIV:33 ff.; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1947:49; Aurigemma, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, Roma (Ministero dell'Africa Italiana), vol. I, 1950 I:70. 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"
/>
Fuluiae
Piae
<lb
n="2"
/>
matris
domini
<lb
n="3"
/>
nostri
<lb
n="4"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratoris
</ex>
Caesaris
Luci
<lb
n="5"
/>
Septimi
Seueri
Pii
<lb
n="6"
/>
Pertinacis
Augusti
Ara
<lb
n="7"
type="worddiv"
/>
bici
Adiabenici
Parthici
ma
<lb
n="8"
type="worddiv"
/>
ximi
Lepcitani
Septimiani
<lb
n="9"
/>
publice
ex
uoto
posuerunt
Translation:
To Fulvia Pia, mother of our lord emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia; the Septimian Lepcitanians set this up publicly, in accordance with a vow.
Commentary:
l. 1. Fulvia Pia is attested in PIR(2) F 563; also in 416, l. 1.
l. 8. Parthicus maximus from 198.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 1005)
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