Severe arc of Septime

The Arc of Septime Sévère is a ancient Triumphal arch which is with Rome at an end of the Roman Forum, to the foot of the hill of the Capitole.

It was set up in 203 a. J. - C. for glorifier the military victories of the emperor Septime Sévère and its sons Geta and Caracalla over the Parthes. It is a marble construction, comprising a framed principal arch of two smaller arches. The frontages are richly decorated with columns, of entablatures and of Bas-relief S. On the Attique of each frontage, a broad inscription dédicatoire is engraved. Originally, the letters engraved in hollow received bronze letters now disappeared.

A Quadriga of bronze, led by the emperor and his two sons, crowned the arc in the beginning. A staircase gives access the higher platform.

The architectural type of this triumphal arch in particular inspired the design of the Arc of Constantin like that, with the whole beginning of the XIXe century, the Arc of the Carousel in Paris.

The dedication

Transcription

Imp (eratori) Caes (ari) Lucio Septimio M (arci) wire (io) Seuero Pio Pertinaci Aug (usto) patri patriae Parthico Arabico and | Parthico Adiabenico pontific (I) maximo tribunic (ia) potest (ate) XI imp (eratori) XI, Co (N) S (uli) III proco (N) S (uli) and | imp (eratori) Caes (ari) M (arco) Aurelio L (ucii) wire (io) Antonino Aug (usto) Pio Felici tribunic (ia) potest (ate) VI Co (N) S (uli) proco (N) S (uli) ''' p ''' (atri) ''' p ''' (atriae) | '''optimis fortissimisque principibus ''' | ob rem publicam restitutam imperiumque populi Romani propagatum | insignibus uirtutibus eorum domi forisque S (enatus) P (opulus) Q (ue) R (omanus).

Translation

With the Emperor César Lucius Septimius Severus, Pertinax, wire of Marcus, Piles, Father of the fatherland, Arabic Parthique, Parthique adiabenic, large pontiff, having held 11 times the power tribunician and having been greeted imperator for the 11th time, consul for the third time, proconsul, and in the Emperor César Marcus Aurelius, wire of Lucius, Antonin Auguste Piles, having held the power tribunician fortunately six times, consul, proconsul, Father of the fatherland, with the very large and very valiant princes, to have restored the State and to have increased the empire of the Roman people to the inside and the outside, thanks to their visible merits, the Senate and high Roman people this monument.

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