The following is the inscription, as recorded by Bruce:—
DIVO . L . . . . TIMIO . SEVERO . PIO . AVG. ARAB. ADIAB. PARTH. MAXI . . . . IMPAR
ET . IMP. CAES. M. AVRELIO . ANTONINO . PIO . AVG. FELICI. PARTH. MAX.
BRIT. MAX. GERM. MAX. PONT. MAX. FIL. TRIB. POT. XVIII. IMP. III.
COS. IIII P.P. PROCOS . OPTIMO . MAXIMOQUE . PRINCIPI . ET
IVLIAE . DOMNAE . PIAE . FELICI . AVG. MATRI . AVG. ET . CASTRORVM . ET . SENATVS.
ET . PATRIAE . VXORI . DIVI . SEVERI . AVG. PII. COL. IVL. ASSVRAS . DEVOTA . NVMINI .
EORVM. D. D. P. P.
It was also copied by Sir Grenville Temple,[190] on whose authority, supplemented by his own observation, it has been produced by Guérin.[191]
The most important words of this inscription, COL. IVL. ASSVRAS, were rendered by Sir Grenville Temple as OLIVI . AVSVRA.[192] And Pelissier, accepting this rendering as accurate, imagined the letters OLIVI to be an abbreviation of olivifera.[193] M. Guérin has settled, beyond the possibility of doubt, that the words really are