441. Fragmentary dedication to Geta

Description:
Left-hand side of a marble panel (w: 0.62 x h: 0.44 x d: 0.15). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face; later re-used and perforated with a square hole. 
Letters:
Rustic capitals 0.04-0.05. 
Date:
A.D. 209 (titulature) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, South side. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
U. Ciotti, Bollettino dell'Istituto Nazionale d'Arte e d'Archeologia XI:118 ff. 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) 
〚P(ublio) Septimio Getae [nobilis]-
simo Caes(ari)〛co(n)s(uli) II Im[p(eratoris) Seueri]
Aug(usti) filio Antonini [Augusti Pii]
fratri Lepc(itani) Septimian[i ·· ? ··ob]
5eximiam ac diuinam in s[e indulgentiam]
〚PSEPTIMIOGETAE[········]
SIMOCAES〛COSIIIM[··················]
AVGFILIOANTONINI[············]
FRATRILEPCSEPTIMIAN[···· ? ·····]
5EXIMIAMACDIVINAMINS[···············]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<del>
<expan>
<abbr>
P
</abbr>
<ex>
ublio
</ex>
</expan>
Septimio
Getae
<supplied reason="lost" >
nobilis
</supplied>
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
simo
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
ari
</ex>
</expan>
</del>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
uli
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="2" >
II
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
Im
<supplied reason="lost" >
p
</supplied>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<ex>
eratoris
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Seueri
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
filio
Antonini
<supplied reason="lost" >
Augusti
Pii
</supplied>
<lb n="4" />
fratri
<expan>
<abbr>
Lepc
</abbr>
<ex>
itani
</ex>
</expan>
Septimian
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
ob
</supplied>
<lb n="5" />
eximiam
ac
diuinam
in
s
<supplied reason="lost" >
e
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
indulgentiam
</supplied>
</ab>

1-2, P(ublio) Septimio Getae [nobilis]simo Caes(ari): Erased after damnatio in 212.

Translation:

To Publius Septimius Geta, most noble Caesar (all erased), consul twice, son of emperor Severus Augustus, brother of Antoninus Augustus Pius; the Septimian Lepcitanians [·· ? ··], on account of his great and godlike [indulgence] to them.

Commentary:

l. 2. cos. II. 1 Jan. 209.

l. 5. See also 393, l. 8; 423, l. 5.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 336)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 336)

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