<rs type="textType">Dedication</rs> to Caracalla J. M. ReynoldsJ. B. Ward-Perkins

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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

Two fragments from the upper part of a marble panel (0.660.46 and 0.380.29).

Description of Text

Inscribed on one face.

Description of Letters

Lapidary capitals: lines 1-2, 0.08; line 3, 0.06; lines 4-5, 0.07.

Date

A.D. 210-211 (titulature)

Locations

Sabratha: Capitolium, found in the vaults; see note on 1.

Unknown

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Bibliography

Not previously published.

Text constituted from

Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)

Text Imperatori Caesari Marco Aurelio Seuero Antonino Augusto Pio Felici Parthico maximo Bryttanico maximo Septimi Seueri Pii filio diui Marci nepoti diui Pii pronepoti diui Hadriani abnepoti diui Traiani Parthici adnepoti
Translation

To Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Felix, greatest Victor in Parthia, greatest Victor in Britain, son of Lucius Septimius Severus Pius, grandson of deified Marcus, great grandson of deified Pius, great great grandson of deified Hadrian, great great great grandson of deified, Trajan, Victor in Parthia

Commentary

l. 3. Brittanicus maximus from 210.

Photographs

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 763)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 764)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr CS 274 bis)