41. Dedication to the Indulgentia of Severus Alexander
- Description:
- The upper part of a panel of white marble (w: 1.20 x h: 0.55 x d: 0.02).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: 0.09. Traces of red paint in the letters.
- Date:
- A.D. 226-227.(titulature)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: The North Forum Portico. Re-used, when already broken, as a paving slab in the late IV cent. paving at the W end of the portico, where the impression still survives. See also 23, 27, 43, 95.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Sabratha Museum.
- Bibliography:
- Bartoccini, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, Roma (Ministero dell'Africa Italiana), vol. I, 1950 I:54. 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)
1, INDV: These four letters are now lost, but the impression survives.
2-3, Erased with continuous horizontal strokes after his death in 235.
Translation:
To the indulgent behaviour of the Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander, Pius, Felix, Augustus, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the sixth time, consul twice, father of the country[·· ? ··]
Commentary:
l. 5. trib. pot. VI. 10 Dec. 226-9 Dec 227.
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