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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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Description of Monument
Rectangular base
(0.470.710.51) of very coarse grey limestone, badly weathered.
Description of Text
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel
(die, 0.250.50).
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, North Temple (see 433).
Unknown
Findspot
Bibliography
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Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
Text
LucioSeptimioGetaeCaesariImperatorisCaesarisLuciSeptimiSeueriPiiPertinacisAugustiArabiciAdiabeniciParthicimaximifilioetImperatorisCaesarisMarciAurelliAntoniniAugustifratriMessiusAtticusprimussacerdosuotumsoluit
Apparatus
L. Septimius Geta was Caesar from 198; these lines erased after damnatio in 212.
Translation
To Lucius Septimius Geta Caesar all erased son of emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia, and brother of emperor Caesar Marcus Aurellius Antoninus Augustus, Messius Atticus, first priest, paid his vow.
Commentary
l. 7. L. Septimius Severus was Parthicus maximus from 198.
l. 11. Messius Atticus. Also in 408, l. 4; 439, l. 13.