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]
[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]
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Im
</supplied>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratori
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
C
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>
</abbr>
aes
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</expan>
<ex>
</supplied>
ari
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratoris
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
aris
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uci
</ex>
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>
</expan>
usti
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
Arab
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</abbr>
ibic
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</expan>
<ex>
</supplied>
i
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
<abbr>
Adiab
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
enici
</ex>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
Parth
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ici
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
maxim
</supplied>
i
filio
<lb
n="4"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
diui
Marci
<expan>
<abbr>
nep
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
oti
</ex>
diui
Pii
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
pronep
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
oti
</ex>
<lb
n="5"
/>
di
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ui
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Hadriani
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
<abbr>
abnep
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
oti
</ex>
diui
Traiani
</supplied>
<lb
n="6"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
ad
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</abbr>
nep
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</expan>
<ex>
</supplied>
oti
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
arco
</ex>
Aurelio
Antonino
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usto
</ex>
<lb
n="7"
/>
Lep
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
citani
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
publice
</supplied>
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)
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