449. Dedication to Julia Mamaea

Description:
Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.35 x h: 0.40 x d: 0.06, no edges surviving). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.10. 
Date:
A.D. 222-235 (reign of Severus Alexander) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum. 
Bibliography:
A. Degrassi, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, Roma (Ministero dell'Africa Italiana), vol. I, 1950, III 1954 This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952; including revisions from J. M. Reynolds, 'Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania: A Supplement', Proceedings of the British School at Rome 23 (1955), 124-147 
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
[---]
2[Iuliae] Mamaea[e Aug(ustae)]
[matri Au]g(usti) no[stri]
[et senatu]s et cas[trorum]
5[·· c. 9··] patro[nae ·· ? ··]
[---]
[---]
2[·······]MAMAEA[······]
[·········]GNO[·····]
[··········]SETCAS[·······]
5[·· c. 9··]PATRO[······ ? ··]
[---]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Iuliae
</supplied>
Mamaea
<supplied reason="lost" >
e
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
ustae
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
matri
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Au
</supplied>
g
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
no
<supplied reason="lost" >
stri
</supplied>
<lb n="4" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
et
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
senatu
</supplied>
s
et
cas
<supplied reason="lost" >
trorum
</supplied>
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="9" unit="character" precision="circa" />
patro
<supplied reason="lost" >
nae
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="6" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
</ab>

3, : Another line containing the titles of Severus Alexander, following l. 3., Degrassi : on the surviving fragment of l.3 there are traces of a line below, quite illegible. Degrassi may be right in his explanation of these; or they may be part of the missing words of the line given as l.4 in IRT.

5, [civitati]s patro[nae·· ? ··], Degrassi: the stone has been re-examined: the letter before PATRO is unlikely to be S, which should have left traces of its lower curve, but may be C.

Translation:

[·· ? ··] to Julia Mamaea [Augusta, mother] of our Augustus and of the [Senate] and of the camps [·· ? ··] patroness [·· ? ··].

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.14)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.14)

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