Description:
Moulded marble base (w: 0.60 x h: 1.50 x d: 0.48). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a recessed panel. Uniform with 392, 422, 434, which are dated from 482 in 200-201 (die, w: 0.20 x h: 0.68). 
Letters:
Rustic capitals: 0.03-0.023. 
Date:
Between 10 Dec. A.D. 200 - 9 Dec. 201 (prosopography from 422).  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Theatre, near the West end of the orchestra. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Caputo, Epigraphica (Rivista Italiana di Epigrafia), Milano, vol. I, 1939 I:166 ff., fig. l9. 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
matris castrorum
matri Aug[〚(ustorum)〛] coniugi
inuicti
5 Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) L(uci) Septimi
Seueri Pii Pertinacis
Aug(usti) Arab(ici) Adiabenici
Parthici maximi
M(arcus) Iunius Punicus
10proc(orator) sexagenarius
prouinciae Thraciae
centenarius Alexan-
driae ad Mercurium
IVLIAEAVGVSTAE
MATRISCASTRORVM
MATRIAVG[········]CONIVGI
INVICTI
5IMPCAESLSEPTIMI
SEVERIPIIPERTINACIS
AVGARABADIABENICI
PARTHICIMAXIMI
MIVNIVSPVNICVS
10PROCSEXAGENARIVS
PROVINCIAETHRACIAE
CENTENARIVSALEXAN
DRIAEADMERCVRIVM
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Iuliae
Augustae
<lb n="2" />
matris
castrorum
<lb n="3" />
matri
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<del>
<ex>
ustorum
</ex>
</del>
</supplied>
</expan>
coniugi
<lb n="4" />
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
Pertinacis
<lb n="7" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Arab
</abbr>
<ex>
ici
</ex>
</expan>
Adiabenici
<lb n="8" />
Parthici
maximi
<lb n="9" />
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arcus
</ex>
</expan>
Iunius
Punicus
<lb n="10" />
<expan>
<abbr>
proc
</abbr>
<ex>
orator
</ex>
</expan>
sexagenarius
<lb n="11" />
prouinciae
Thraciae
<lb n="12" />
centenarius
Alexan
<lb n="13" type="worddiv" />
driae
ad
Mercurium
</ab>

2, sic

3, AVG[[G]]: The 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

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 763 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 763 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 774 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 774 Leica)

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