291. Votive to Julia Domna as Juno

Description:
Moulded base (w: 0.74 x h: 1.80 x d: 0.70) of brown limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.31 x h: 0.72).  
Letters:
Rustic capitals: 0.05-0.06. 
Date:
Severan: 193 - 235 A.D. (prosopography) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, beside the Severan exedra. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, 129 L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.), 1926:l59 Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940, III: 80 ff., fig 3. 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 Domnae
Aug(ustae) deae Ịụṇọṇị
orbis ṭ[er]ṛae
Q(uintus) Fuluius Dida
5Bibulianus
uot(um) sol(uit)
IVLIAEDOMNAE
AVGDEAE······
ORBIS·[···]·AE
QFVLVIVSDIDA
5BIBVLIANVS
VOTSOL
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<lb n="1" />
Iuliae
Domnae
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<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
ustae
</ex>
</expan>
deae
<unclear reason="" >
Iunoni
</unclear>
<lb n="3" />
orbis
<unclear reason="" >
t
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
er
</supplied>
<unclear reason="" >
r
</unclear>
ae
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
uintus
</ex>
</expan>
Fuluius
Dida
<lb n="5" />
Bibulianus
<lb n="6" />
<expan>
<abbr>
uot
</abbr>
<ex>
um
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
sol
</abbr>
<ex>
uit
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

2, Julia Domna figures as Juno in a bas-relief panel of the Capitoline triad on the Arch of Severus at Lepcis (Afr. Ital IV (1930) 80, fig. 48)

5, Or Didabibulianus; there are two men of this name in 572 , 11. 8, 9, and 10, 11.

Translation:

To Julia Domna Augusta, the goddess Juno of the world; Quintus Fulvius Dida Bibulianus paid his vow.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.25)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.25)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1563 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1563 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.26)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.26)

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