909. Fragmentary dedication to Septimius Severus and sons

Description:
Top left-hand corner fragment of a panel. No dimensions recorded. Not seen.  
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals.  
Date:
A.D. 209-211 (reign) 
Findspot:
Ghadames: Found in an Arab house in 1913.. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1913) 
Bibliography:
Pavoni, Rivista Coloniale, VIII, ii:315 and fig. 19. 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:
Previous publications 
Imp(eratoribus) Ca[es(aribus) ·· ? ··]
Seuero Pio [·· ? ··]
Parth(ico) max(imo) [·· ? ··]
IMPCA[····· ? ··]
SEVEROPIO[·· ? ··]
PARTHMAX[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratoribus
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Ca
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<abbr>
es
</abbr>
<ex>
aribus
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
Seuero
Pio
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Parth
</abbr>
<ex>
ico
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
imo
</ex>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

1, IMPP[P], the third P erased after the damnatio of Geta in 212.

Translation:

To the emperors Caesars [·· ? ··] Severus Pius [·· ? ··] greatest victor in Parthia [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:
none.

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