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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
(0.510.810.51) of rather coarse grey limestone.
Description of Text
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die,
0.290.59).
Description of Letters
Rustic capitals: 0.03-0.035.
Date
A.D. 209-211 (titulature)
Locations
Lepcis Magna:
Forum Vetus, North Temple (see 433).
Unknown
Findspot
Bibliography
Not previously published.
Text constituted from
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
Text
PublioSeptimioGetaeAugustoImperatorisCaesarisLuciSeptimiSeueriPiiPertinacisAugustiArabiciAdiabeniciParthici maximifelicissimipatrispatriaefilioQuintusPompeiusCerealisFelixprocuratorAugustorumdeuotissimusnuminieiusposuit
Apparatus
AVGGG, the third G erased.
Translation
To Publius Septimius Geta Augustus, son all erased of emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia, most fortunate, father of the country; Quintus Pompeius Cerealis Felix, agent of the three two after erasure Augusti most devoted to his divine power, set this up.
Commentary
l. 2. Augustus. From 209 but see 913, n. 3. Erased after damnatio in 212.
ll. 9-10. Q. Pompeius Cerealis. Also in 648, ll. 1-2.