425. Fragmentary dedication to Caracalla

Description:
Four fragments (w: 0.13 x h: 0.21, top edge; w: 0.10 x h: 0.22, no edges; w: 0.27 x h: 0.27, R edge; and w: 0.16 x h: 0.89, left edge) of a panel of white marble. 
Text:
Inscribed on the back of a fluted pilaster reversed and re-used. 
Letters:
Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.10-0.11. 
Date:
A.D. 198-210 (titulature) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum. 
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) 
[Im]p(eratori) C[aes(ari) Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) L(uci)] Sep[timi]
[Seueri Pii Pertinacis Au]g(usti) Arab-
[ibic(i) Adiab(enici) Parth(ici) maxim]i filio
[diui Marci nep(oti) diui Pii pronep(oti)]
5di[ui Hadriani abnep(oti) diui Traiani]
ad[nep(oti) M(arco) Aurelio Antonino Aug(usto)]
Lep[citani publice]
[···]PC[···················]SEP[·····]
[·························]GARAB
[···················]IFILIO
[·····]
5DI[··················]
AD[··········]
LEP[···············]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Im
</supplied>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
C
<supplied reason="lost" >
aes
</supplied>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<ex>
ari
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratoris
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
aris
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
uci
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
Sep
<supplied reason="lost" >
timi
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Seueri
Pii
Pertinacis
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Au
</supplied>
g
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Arab
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
ibic
</supplied>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<ex>
i
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Adiab
</abbr>
<ex>
enici
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Parth
</abbr>
<ex>
ici
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
maxim
</supplied>
i
filio
<lb n="4" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
diui
Marci
<expan>
<abbr>
nep
</abbr>
<ex>
oti
</ex>
</expan>
diui
Pii
<expan>
<abbr>
pronep
</abbr>
<ex>
oti
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<lb n="5" />
di
<supplied reason="lost" >
ui
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Hadriani
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
abnep
</abbr>
<ex>
oti
</ex>
</expan>
diui
Traiani
</supplied>
<lb n="6" />
<expan>
<abbr>
ad
<supplied reason="lost" >
nep
</supplied>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<ex>
oti
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arco
</ex>
</expan>
Aurelio
Antonino
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<lb n="7" />
Lep
<supplied reason="lost" >
citani
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
publice
</supplied>
</ab>

Translation:

[To em]peror C[aesar] son [of emperor Caesar Lucius] Sep[timius Severus Pius Pertinax Au]gustus, victor in Ara[bia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia, grandson of deified Marcus, great grandson of deified Pius, great great grandson of] de[ified Hadrian,] great great great [grandson of deified Trajan, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus]; the Lep[citanians publicly]

Commentary:

l. 3. Parthicus maximus from 198.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.28)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.28)

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