436. Dedication to Geta
- Description:
- Rectangular base (w: 0.46 x h: 0.97 x d: 0.41) of grey limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face. Found re-used as a bracket. An oblong hole has been cut between ll. 4 and 5.
- Letters:
- Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.06-0.05.
- Date:
- A.D. 198-209 (titulature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Theatre, South side of the rear portico.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Bibliography:
- Aurigemma, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, Roma (Ministero dell'Africa Italiana), vol. I, 1950 I:75. 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)
1, P(ublio) [Septimio Ge]tae Caes(ari): From 198 erased after damnatio in 212.
7, filio: Erased after damnatio in 212.
Translation:
To Publius Septimius Geta Caesar, son (all erased) of Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia, most fortunate, father of the country; the Curia Matidia set this up in accordance with a vow.
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