416. Dedication to Fulvia Pia

Description:
Moulded base (w: 0.68 x h: 1.30 x d: 0.68) of brown limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.33 x h: 0.51). 
Letters:
Rustic capitals: 0.04-0.035. 
Date:
A.D. 198-210 (titulature) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Theatre, in one of the upper tiers of the cavea. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Aurigemma, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, Roma (Ministero dell'Africa Italiana), vol. I, 1950 I:71, L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1950:159. 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) 
Fuluiae Piae
matri domini
nostri
Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) L(uci) Septimi
5Seueri Pii Pert(inacis)
Aug(usti) Arab(ici) Adiab(enici)
Parth(ici) max(imi)
Curiae tres Seuerae Pia
et Vlpia et Augusta
10ex uoto posuerunt
FVLVIAEPIAE
MATRIDOMINI
NOSTRI
IMPCAESLSEPTIMI
5SEVERIPIIPERT
AVGARABADIAB
PARTHMAX
CVRIAETRESSEVERAEPIA
ETVLPIAETAVGVSTA
10EXVOTOPOSVERVNT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Fuluiae
Piae
<lb n="2" />
matri
domini
<lb n="3" />
nostri
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratoris
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
aris
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
uci
</ex>
</expan>
Septimi
<lb n="5" />
Seueri
Pii
<expan>
<abbr>
Pert
</abbr>
<ex>
inacis
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="6" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Arab
</abbr>
<ex>
ici
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Adiab
</abbr>
<ex>
enici
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="7" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Parth
</abbr>
<ex>
ici
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
imi
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="8" />
Curiae
tres
Seuerae
Pia
<lb n="9" />
et
Vlpia
et
Augusta
<lb n="10" />
ex
uoto
posuerunt
</ab>

Translation:

To Fulvia Pia, mother of our lord emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia, the three curiae Severae, Pia and Ulpia and Augusta, set this up in accordance with a vow.

Commentary:

l. 1. Fulvia Pia is attested in PIR(2) F 563; also in 415, l. 1.

l. 7. Parthicus maximus from 198.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 263 Lastre)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 263 Lastre)

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