392. Dedication to Septimius Severus

Description:
Rectangular marble base (w: 0.74 x h: 1.50 x d: 0.71). Uniform with 403, 422, 434. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a recessed panel (die w: 0.34 x h: 0.59). 
Letters:
Rustic capitals: 0.035-0.02. 
Date:
A.D. 201 (titulature) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Theatre, near the West end of the orchestra. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Caputo, Epigraphica (Rivista Italiana di Epigrafia), Milano, vol. I, 1939 I:163 ff., fig. 18; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1940:95. 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) 
Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) L(ucio) Septimio Seuero
Pio Pertinaci
Aug(usto) Arabico Adiabenico
Parthico max(imo)
5pont(ifici) max(imo) trib(unicia) pot(estate)
VIIII imp(eratori) XI
co(n)s(uli) II p(atri) p(atriae) proco(n)s(uli)
M(arcus) Iunius Punicus proc(urator) sexagena-
rius prouinciae Thraciae cente-
10narius Alexandriae ad Mercuri-
um
IMPCAESLSEPTIMIOSEVERO
PIOPERTINACI
AVGARABICOADIABENICO
PARTHICOMAX
5PONTMAXTRIBPOT
VIIIIIMPXI
COSIIPPPROCOS
MIVNIVSPVNICVSPROCSEXAGENA
RIVSPROVINCIAETHRACIAECENTE
10NARIVSALEXANDRIAEADMERCVRI
VM
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
ari
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
ucio
</ex>
</expan>
Septimio
Seuero
<lb n="2" />
Pio
Pertinaci
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
Arabico
Adiabenico
<lb n="4" />
Parthico
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
imo
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
ifici
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
imo
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
unicia
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
pot
</abbr>
<ex>
estate
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="6" />
<num value="9" >
VIIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="11" >
XI
</num>
<lb n="7" />
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
uli
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="2" >
II
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atri
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atriae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
proco
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
uli
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="8" />
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arcus
</ex>
</expan>
Iunius
Punicus
<expan>
<abbr>
proc
</abbr>
<ex>
urator
</ex>
</expan>
sexagena
<lb n="9" type="worddiv" />
rius
prouinciae
Thraciae
cente
<lb n="10" type="worddiv" />
narius
Alexandriae
ad
Mercuri
<lb n="11" type="worddiv" />
um
</ab>

Translation:

To Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the ninth time, acclaimed victor eleven times, consul twice, father of the country, proconsul; Marcus Junius Punicus, his equestrian agent in Thrace at a salary of sixty thousand sesterces, and in Alexandria at the Temple of Mercury, at a salary of one hundred thousand.

Commentary:

ll. 5-6. trib. pot. VIIII - 10 Dec. 200 - 9 Dec. 201.

l. 8. M. Iunius Punicus. Also in 403, I. 9; 422, l. 9; 434, l. 7.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 775)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 775)

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