39. ?Dedication to Septimius Severus
- Description:
- Part of a marble panel (w: 0.36 x h: 0.35, no edge surviving).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face. Traces of red paint in the letters.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: 0.07.
- Date:
- A.D. 198-211 (reign)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Capitolium, found in the vaults; see note on 1.
- 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)
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<expan>
<abbr>
L
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uci
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Septimi
Seueri
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Pi
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i
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<abbr>
Pert
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inacis
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<expan>
<abbr>
Arab
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<ex>
</expan>
ici
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
Adiab
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
enici
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
Parth
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ici
</ex>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
max
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<ex>
</expan>
imi
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
f
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<ex>
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ilii
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<lb
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<supplied
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diui
Marci
nepotis
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diui
Pii
<expan>
<abbr>
pron
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</abbr>
ep
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<supplied
reason="lost"
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</expan>
<ex>
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otis
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<supplied
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diui
Hadriani
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<abbr>
abnep
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<ex>
</expan>
otis
</ex>
<lb
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/>
<supplied
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diui
Traiani
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<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Pa
</supplied>
rth
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ici
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
abn
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<ex>
</expan>
epotis
</ex>
di
<supplied
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ui
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<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Neruae
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<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
proadnep
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<ex>
</expan>
otis
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<note>
sic
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coni
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ugi
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c
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</ab>
Translation:
[To·· ? ··] wife of[·· ? ··] [the son of Lucius Septimius Severus] Pius, Pertinax, [Augustus, Victor in Arabia, Victor in Adiabene, greatest Victor in Parthia, 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, [great great great great grandson of] deified [Nerva ·· ? ··]
Commentary:
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