<rs type="textType">Posthumous</rs> <rs type="textType">dedication</rs> to Septimius Severus 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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ArabicEnglishFrenchGermanAncient GreekTransliterated GreekModern GreekHebrewItalianLatinPunicNative Libyan language in Latin script Tripolitania Libya Leptis Magna 2008-09-09ZAconverted using CHET-C 2009-05-19RVAdded Figures 2009-08-24RVAdded Figures
Description of Monument

Part of a polygonal marble base (width incomplete; 0.400.250.35), uniform with 404 and 429.

Description of Text

Inscribed on one face with traces of a moulding above and below.

Description of Letters

Rustic capitals: 0.025.

Date

A.D. 216 (titulature)

Locations

Lepcis Magna: Severan Basilica found built into the steps of the South apse.

Unknown

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Bibliography

Not previously published.

Text constituted from

Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)

Text Diuo Seuero patri Imperatoris Caesaris Marci Aurelli Antonini Pii Felicis Augusti Parthici maximi Brittanici maximi Germanici maximi pontificis maximi tribuniciae potestatis XVIII imperatori III consulis IIII patris patriae sic Lepcitani Septimiani
Translation

To deified Severus, father of Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurellius Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus, greatest victor in Parthia, greatest victor in Brittania, greatest victor in Germany, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the nineteenth time, acclaimed victor three times, consul four times, father of the country, the Septimian Lepcitanians.

Commentary

ll. 4-5. trib. pot. XVIIII - 10 Dec. 215 - 9 Dec. 216.

Photographs

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1530 Leica)