405. Dedication to Julia Domna

Description:
Moulded base (w: 0.72 x h: 1.735 x d: 0.68) of compact brown limestone, with a three quarter column-base above.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.315 x h: 0.725). 
Letters:
Rustic capitals: 0.045-0.035. 
Date:
A.D. 198-210. (reign) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Theatre, near the West end of the orchestra. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Aurigemma, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, Roma (Ministero dell'Africa Italiana), vol. I, 1950 I:74. 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) 
Iuliae Augustae
matri castrorum
matri Aug〚(ustorum)〛
coniugi inuicti
5 Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) L(uci) Septimi
Seueri Pii
Pertinacis Augusti
Arabici Adiabenici
Parthici maximi
10Curia Augusta
numini eius
deuotissima posuit
IVLIAEAVGVSTAE
MATRICASTRORVM
MATRIAVG〚〛
CONIVGIINVICTI
5IMPCAESLSEPTIMI
SEVERIPII
PERTINACISAVGVSTI
ARABICIADIABENICI
PARTHICIMAXIMI
10CVRIAAVGVSTA
NVMINIEIVS
DEVOTISSIMAPOSVIT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Iuliae
Augustae
<lb n="2" />
matri
castrorum
<lb n="3" />
matri
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<del>
<ex>
ustorum
</ex>
</del>
</expan>
<lb n="4" />
coniugi
inuicti
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratoris
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
aris
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
uci
</ex>
</expan>
Septimi
<lb n="6" />
Seueri
Pii
<lb n="7" />
Pertinacis
Augusti
<lb n="8" />
Arabici
Adiabenici
<lb n="9" />
Parthici
maximi
<lb n="10" />
Curia
Augusta
<lb n="11" />
numini
eius
<lb n="12" />
deuotissima
posuit
</ab>

3, AVG[[G]]: The second G erased; see 403, n. 2.

Translation:

To Julia Augusta mother of the camps, mother of the two 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; the Curia Augusta, deeply devoted to her divine power, set this up.

Commentary:

l. 9. From 198.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 265 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 265 Leica)

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