442. Fragmentary dedication to ?Geta
- Description:
- Part of the left-hand side of a marble base (surviving measurements, w: 0.43 x h: 0.75 x d: 0.19).
- Text:
- Inscribed within a prepared panel (die, surviving w: 0.30 x h: 0.75).
- Letters:
- Rustic capitals: 0.04-0.05.
- Date:
- A.D. 210 (titulature and consulship)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, South portico.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- 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)
Translation:
To emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius [Geta Pius Augustus], victor in Britain, victor in Arabia, [·· ? ··] holding tribunician power for the second time, consul twice, the Septimian Lepcitanians publicly [·· ? ··](almost all erased)
Commentary:
l. 1. Augustus. Presumably Geta, although he is not otherwise known to have held the title Arabicus; erased after damnatio in 212.
l. 2. Geta was Britannicus in 210.
ll. 2-4. trib. pot. II. 10 Dec. 209 - 9 Dec. 210.
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