Dedication to Julia DomnaJ. 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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ArabicEnglishFrenchGermanAncient GreekTransliterated GreekModern GreekHebrewItalianLatinPunicNative Libyan language in Latin scriptTripolitaniaLibyaLeptis Magna2008-09-09ZAconverted using CHET-C2009-05-19RVAdded Figures2009-08-24RVAdded Figures
Description of Monument
Moulded marblebase
(0.601.500.48).
Description of Text
Inscribed on one face within a recessed panel.
Uniform with 392, 422, 434, which are dated from 482 in 200-201
(die, 0.200.68).
Description of Letters
Rustic capitals: 0.03-0.023.
Date
Between 10 Dec. A.D. 200 - 9 Dec. 201 (prosopography from 422).
Locations
Lepcis Magna:
Theatre, near the West end of the orchestra.
Unknown
Findspot
Bibliography
Caputo, I:166 ff., fig. l9.
Text constituted from
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
Text
IuliaeAugustaematriscastrorummatriAugustorumconiugiinuictiImperatorisCaesarisLuciSeptimiSeueriPii PertinacisAugustiArabiciAdiabeniciParthicimaximiMarcusIuniusPunicusprocoratorsexagenariusprouinciaeThraciaecentenariusAlexandriae
ad Mercurium
Apparatus
sic
AVGGThe second G erased after the damnatio of Geta in 212. He received the title Augustus officially in 209, but many of the Tripolitanian inscriptions which so designate him may well be of earlier date; see 913, n. 3.
Translation
To Julia August, mother of the camps, mother of the Augusti revised to the singular, wife of the unconquered Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius
Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia; Marcus Junius Punicus, equestrian imperial agent at a salary of
about sixty thousand sesteries in the province of Thrace, at one hundred thousand in Alexandria, at the temple of Mercury.
Commentary
l. 9. M. Iunicus Punicus. Also in 392 , l. 8; 422, l. 9; 434, l. 7