448. Fragmentary dedication to Severus Alexander

Description:
Four fragments from a narrow marble panel (c. 0.65, no edges surviving); probably uniform with 451. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.10. 
Date:
A.D. 222-235 (reign) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Theatre.  
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) 
[I]mp(eratori) [Caes(ari)]
M(arco) Au[re]lli[o]
[Seu]ero
[Alexa]ndro
5[Pio Fe]lici
[Aug(usto)]
[Le]pcitan[i pu]blice
[··]MP[·····]
MAV[···]LLI[··]
[····]ERO
[······]NDRO
5[·······]LICI
[····]
[···]PCITAN[·····]BLICE
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
I
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
mp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
ari
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arco
</ex>
</expan>
Au
<supplied reason="lost" >
re
</supplied>
lli
<supplied reason="lost" >
o
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Seu
</supplied>
ero
<lb n="4" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Alexa
</supplied>
ndro
<lb n="5" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Pio
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Fe
</supplied>
lici
<lb n="6" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<lb n="7" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Le
</supplied>
pcitan
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
pu
</supplied>
blice
</ab>

Translation:

To emperor [Caesar] Marcus Aurellius Severus Alexander, [Pius], Felix, [Augustus]; the Lepcitanians publicly.

Commentary:

Alexander Severus: Augustus 222-235.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXI.5)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXI.5)

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