Yes, north-African, i.e. Arab. Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septimius_Severus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septimius_Severus: > He had Italian Roman ance

Yes, north-African, i.e. Arab. Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septimius_Severus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septimius_Severus: > He had Italian Roman ancestry on his mother's side, and was descended from Punic forebears on his father's side [..] The Punic people, or Western Phoenicians, were a group of Semitic peoples in the Western Mediterranean who traced their origins to the Phoenicians of the coasts of Western Asia.