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- Description:
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Inscribed marble architrave blocks (each originally w:
3.44 x h: 0.88 x d: 0.65).There were originally 42 blocks,
of which 28 survive complete and 11 in part, recomposed by
Caputo.
- Text:
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Inscribed. The text is identical with that of
427
from the exterior of the Basilica.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: 0.27.
- Date:
- A.D. 216 (titulature)
- Findspot:
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Lepcis Magna: Basilica Severiana. From the lower order of the
interior colonnades.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
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P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana:
Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma,
1925, 109; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des
Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité
romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.)
1926:157; Guidi, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle
Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 II:231 ff., plates B and C,
figs 3, 4; also, probably,
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VIII:22671 a. 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)
east
Imperator Caesar Lucius
Septimius [Seuerus Pius] Pert[inax Aug(ustus) Arabicus
Adiabenicus Parthicus maximus Brittanicus] max[imus
pontif]ex maximus [tribuniciae] potestatis decem et
[o]cties imperator duodecies co(n)s(ul) ter pater patriae
proco(n)s(ul) coepit et ex maiore parte [perf]ecit
Imp(erator) Caes(ar) di[ui] Se[pti]mi [S]eueri Pii Arabici
Adiabenici Parth[i]ci max[imi B]rita[nnici maximi fil[ius]
west
diui Marci Antonini Pii
Germanici Sarmatici nepos diui Antonini Pii pronepos diui
Hadriani adnepos diui Traiani Parthici et divi Neruae
adnepos Imp(erator) Ca[e]s(ar) Marcus Aurellius Antoninus
Pius Aug(ustus) Parthicus max(imus) Britannicus max[imus
G]ermanicus maximus pontifex maximus tribuniciae
potesta[t]is dec[e]m nouies imperator ter co(n)s(ul)
[qu]ater pater pa[triae pr]oco(n)s(ul) perfici c[urauit]
east
IMPERATORCAESARLVCIVSSEPTIMIVS[·············]PERT[·········]MAX[············]EXMAXIMVS[············]POTESTATISDECEMET[··]CTIESIMPERATORDVODECIESCOSTERPATERPATRIAEPROCOSCOEPITETEXMAIOREPARTE[·····]ECITIMPCAESDI[···]SE[····]MI[··]EVERIPIIARABICIADIABENICIPARTH[··]CIMAX[······]RITA[·············FIL[····]
west
DIVIMARCIANTONINIPIIGERMANICISARMATICINEPOSDIVIANTONINIPIIPRONEPOSDIVIHADRIANIADNEPOSDIVITRAIANIPARTHICIETDIVINERVAEADNEPOSIMPCA[··]SMARCVSAVRELLIVSANTONINVSPIVSAVGPARTHICVSMAXBRITANNICVSMAX[·······]ERMANICVSMAXIMVSPONTIFEXMAXIMVSTRIBVNICIAEPOTESTA[··]ISDEC[··]MNOVIESIMPERATORTERCOS[···]ATERPATERPA[·········]OCOSPERFICIC[·······]
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Imperator
Caesar
Lucius
Septimius
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Seuerus
Pius
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Pert
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inax
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Arabicus
Adiabenicus
Parthicus
maximus
Brittanicus
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max
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reason="lost"
>
imus
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pontif
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ex
maximus
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>
tribuniciae
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potestatis
decem
et
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cties
imperator
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ter
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patriae
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perf
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eueri
Pii
Arabici
Adiabenici
Parth
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ci
max
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B
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nnici
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maximi
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fil
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ius
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type="textpart"
n="west"
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<ab>
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diui
Marci
Antonini
Pii
Germanici
Sarmatici
nepos
diui
Antonini
Pii
pronepos
diui
Hadriani
adnepos
diui
Traiani
Parthici
et
di
vi
Neruae
adnepos
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<abbr>
Ca
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reason="lost"
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e
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Marcus
Aurellius
Antoninus
Pius
Parthicus
Britannicus
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reason="lost"
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imus
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reason="lost"
>
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ermanicus
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pater
pa
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triae
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Translation:
The emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius [Severus Pius] Pert [inax
Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest
victor in Parthia, greatest victor in Britannia, ] chief
priest, [holding tribunician] power for the eighteenth time,
acclaimed victor twelve times, consul [three times, father] of
the country, proconsul, began and substantially completed
(this); emperor Caesar, son of deified Septimius Severus Pius,
victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in
Parthia, greatest victor in Britannia, grandson of deified
Marcus Antoninus, victor in Germany, victor in Sarmatia, great
grandson of deified Antoninus Pius, great great grandson of
deified Hadrian, great great great grandson of deified Trajan,
victor in Parthia and of deified Nerva, emperor Caesar Marcus
Aurellius Antoninus Pius Augustus, greatest victor in Parthia,
greatest victor in Britannia, greatest victor in Germany,
chief priest, holding tribunician power for the nineteenth
time, acclaimed victor three times, consul four times, father
of the country, proconsul, [arranged] for its completion.
Commentary:
a) trib. pot. XVIII. 10 Dec. 209 - 9 Dec. 210.
b) trib. pot. XVIIII. 10 Dec. 215 - 9 Dec. 216.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 314)
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