<rs type="textType">Dedication</rs> to Septimius Severus, Caracalla and Geta J. M. ReynoldsJ. B. Ward-Perkins

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Republished from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.

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Description of Monument

Panel ( 0.93 0.71 0.16) of fine grey limestone.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the surviving face.

Description of Letters

Mannered capitals: 0.075.

Date

A.D. 202. (titulature)

Locations

Bu-Ngem: Fort at Bu-Ngem; Found in the Baths (map ref. X 5206)

Unknown

Tripoli Castle.

Bibliography

Bartoccini, , II:52 ff. with fig.

Text constituted from

Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)

Text Imperatori Caesari Lucio Septimio Seuero Pio Pertinaci Augusto Arabico Adiabenico Parthico pontifici maximo tribunicia potestate X imperatori XI consuli III patri patriae et Imperatori Caesari Marco Aurelio Antonino Augusto tribunicia potestate III consuli et Lucio Septimio Getae Caesari Augusto per uexillationem legionis III Augustae
Apparatus

The P has been deliberately erased, presumably in error for the P of Publio, Geta's alternative praenomen.

Geta did not receive the title Augustus officially until 209, but many of the Tripolitanian inscriptions which so designate him may well be, as here, of earlier date. Name erased after damnatio in 212.

The name of the legion, erased after its damnatio in 238, has been reinscribed.

Translation

To emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, victor in Parthia, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the tenth time, acclaimed victor eleven times, consul three times, father of the country , and to emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, holding tribunician power for the third time, consul, and to Lucius Septimius Geta erased Caesar Augustus set up using a detachment of legion III Augusta erased from legion.

Commentary

l. 2: tribunician power ten times: 10 Dec. 201 - 9 Dec. 202; but he was not cos. III until 1 Jan. 202. Caracalla was trib. pot. III from 10 Dec. 199 - 9 Dec. 200; but not cos. until 1 Jan. 202.

Photographs

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 1985)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR