Sunday, 17 January 2010

Ostia Theatre Inscription

Following his adoption into the Antonine dynasty Severus could make some grand claims. No longer was he "avenger of the son of a freedman" he was now the son of the Divine Marcus and brother of the Divine Commodus. Who could deserve the throne more than a man who could trace his lineage back all the way to the Divine Nerva?

I mainly made this post to have a permanent record of an inscription I found displaying Severvs' new ancestry.

IMP CAES DIVI MARCI ANTONINI PII FILIVS
DIVI COMMODI FRATER DIVI ANTONINI PII
NEPOS DIVI HADRIANI PRONEP DIVI TRAIANI
PARTHICI ABNEPOS DIVI NERVAE ADNEPOS
L. SEPTIMIVS SEVERVS PIVS PERTINAX AVG
ARABICVS ADIABENICVS PP PONTIF MAX
TRIBVNIC POTEST IIII IMP VIII COS II ET
MARCVS AVRELIVS ANTONINVS CAESAR
DEDICAVERVNT


 Photograph: Jan Theo Bakker.

Dedicated to the son of the Divine Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Brother of the Divine Commodus, Grandson of the Divine Antoninus Pius, Great Grandson of the Divine Hadrian, Great-great Grandson of the Divine Trajan the victor over the Parthians and Great-great-great Grandson of the Divine Nerva, Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus the victor over the Arabs and Adiabenians, father of the fatherland, head priest with tribunicians power for the 4th time, Imperator for the 8th time and consul twice also to Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Caesar.


This inscription dates to 196AD and clearly shows the early stage of Severus' adoption agenda.
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10 comments:

  1. Toni Garçía18 January 2010 at 00:45

    [URL=http://img63.imageshack.us/i/ostiatheatreinscription.jpg/][IMG]http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/8069/ostiatheatreinscription.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
    There are some way to read this text with hebrew alephat and hebrew words and understanding their hebrew text.
    There are some way to ignore it, to confuse it, to misread our history.
    Regards, Antoni García.

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  2. Unknown14 March 2010 at 00:26

    This inscription is not dedicated TO Septimius and Caracalla, but states that Septimius and Caracalla have dedicated the building on which the inscription was placed.

    Curtis Clay

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  3. 284ad20 March 2010 at 17:02

    Thank you Curtis my latin is very rusty these days.

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