887. Fragmentary dedication to Septimius Severus

Description:
On a stone (?block) built into an ancient wall. 
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
Not recorded. 
Date:
193-211 A.D. (reign) 
Findspot:
Middle Lower Sofeggin Basin : Bir Tarsin (map ref. Q 623325). Recorded about 1925 by G. Martinotti. Not seen again.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Fidnspot (1925): a search of the area in 1949 revealed no traces.  
Bibliography:
Manuale Itinerario della Tripolitania, Tripoli, 1914, supplement (undated): Itinerario N. 39. 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:
Previous publications. 
Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) L(ucio) Septimio Seuero [·· ? ··]
IMPCAESLSEPTIMIOSEVERO[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
ari
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
ucio
</ex>
</expan>
Septimio
Seuero
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

To emperor Caesar Lucius Septmius Severus [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:
none.

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