404. Dedication to Julia Domna
- Description:
- Base, in plan three sides of an octagon (maximum width w: 0.68 x h: 0.28 x d: 0.34), moulded at the top and bottom of the three faces.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the central face (die, w: 0.41 x h: 0.15). Uniform width 400 and 429 which are dated by 400 in 216.
- Letters:
- Rustic capitals: l. 1, 0.025; l. 2, 0.03; l. 3, 0.025; l. 4, 0.02.
- Date:
- A.D. 216 from dates of matching dedications 400
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Severan Basilica, West aisle.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Not previously published. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Iuliae
Augustae
matri
imperatoris
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
aris
</ex>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
arci
</ex>
Aurelli
Antonini
Pii
Felicis
Augusti
<lb
n="3"
/>
et
castrorum
<supplied
reason="omitted"
>
et
</supplied>
senatus
et
patriae
<lb
n="4"
/>
Lepcitani
Septimiani
Translation:
To Julia Augusta, mother of emperor Caesar Marcus Aurellius Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus and of the camps and of the senate and of the (?his) country; the Septimian Lepcitanians.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 333 Leica)
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