Fragmentary <rs type="textType">dedication</rs> to CaracallaJ. 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 base of marble, broken at either side (surviving width, 0.40 0.32 0.60).

Description of Text

Inscribed on the surviving face, with a moulding above and below. Uniform with 400 and 404.

Description of Letters

Rustic capitals: 0.02-0.025.

Date

A.D. 216 (titulature; from IRT 400).

Locations

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

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Bibliography

Not previously published.

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Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)

Text Imperatori Caesari Marco Aurellio Antonino Pio Felici Augusto Parthico maximo Britannico maximo Germanico maximo pontifici maximo tribuniciae potestatis XVIIII imperatori III consuli IIII patri patriae Lepcitani Septimiani pro continua indulgentia eius
Translation

To emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix 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, the Septimian Lepcitanians in return for his continuous indulgence.

Commentary

No comment.

Photographs

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1532 Leica)