443. Dedication to Geta

Description:
Rectangular base (w: 0.51 x h: 1.08 x d: 0.52) of pitted grey limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.28 x h: 0.72). 
Letters:
Rustic capitals: 0.045-0.04. 
Date:
A.D. 209-212. (titulature) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, North Temple (see 433). 
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) 
〚P(ublio) Septimio
Getae Aug(usto)〛
[ 〚 [·· ? ··] 〛(?)]
[ 〚 [·· ? ··] 〛(?)]
5M(arcus) Cornelius
Bassus Seruia-
nus e(gregiae) m(emoriae) u(ir) fieri
iussit
Cornelia Seruian[il]-
10la c(larissima) f(emina) filia et
heres posuit
〚PSEPTIMIO
GETAEAVG〛
[·(?)]
[·(?)]
5MCORNELIVS
BASSVSSERVIA
NVSEMVFIERI
IVSSIT
CORNELIASERVIAN[···]
10LACFFILIAET
HERESPOSVIT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<del>
<expan>
<abbr>
P
</abbr>
<ex>
ublio
</ex>
</expan>
Septimio
<lb n="2" />
Getae
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
</del>
<lb n="3" />
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
<del>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</del>
</supplied>
<lb n="4" />
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
<del>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</del>
</supplied>
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arcus
</ex>
</expan>
Cornelius
<lb n="6" />
Bassus
Seruia
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
nus
<expan>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
<ex>
gregiae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
emoriae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
u
</abbr>
<ex>
ir
</ex>
</expan>
fieri
<lb n="8" />
iussit
<lb n="9" />
Cornelia
Seruian
<supplied reason="lost" >
il
</supplied>
<lb n="10" type="worddiv" />
la
<expan>
<abbr>
c
</abbr>
<ex>
larissima
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
emina
</ex>
</expan>
filia
et
<lb n="11" />
heres
posuit
</ab>

Translation:

To Publius Septimius Geta Augustus [·· ? ··](all erased) ; Marcus Cornelius Bassus Servianus, excellent man (i.e. of equestrian status), deceased, ordered erection (of the monument); Cornelia Servianilla, splendid woman, (i.e. of senatorial status), his daughter and heir, set it up.

Commentary:

l. 2. Augustus. From 209; but see 913, n. 3. Erased after damnatio in 212.

ll. 5-7. M. Cornelius Bassus Seruianus. PIR (2) C 1332; known only from 524.

ll. 9-10. Cornelia Seruianilla. PIR2 (C) 1500; known only from 524.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 834)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 834)

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