37. Dedication to Julia Domna by Sabratha
- Description:
- Marble block (w: 0.570 x h: 0.80 x d: 0.42).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Capitals, with some Rustic forms: 0.04.
- Date:
- A.D. 198-210 (reign, titulature).
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Basilica, in the early S exedra.
- 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>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Iuliae
Domnae
Augus
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
tae
matri
August
<del>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</del>
o
</supplied>
<add
place="overstrike"
>
i
</add>
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
<del>
ru
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</del>
m
</supplied>
et
castrorum
<lb
n="4"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratoris
</ex>
Caesaris
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uci
</ex>
Septi
<lb
n="5"
type="worddiv"
/>
mi
Seueri
Pii
Perti
<lb
n="6"
type="worddiv"
/>
nacis
Augusti
<lb
n="7"
/>
Sabrathenses
<lb
n="8"
/>
publice
</ab>
2, I recut over erased O.
3, ORUM: Erased after damnatio of Geta in 212. Geta became Augustus officially in 209; but see 913.
Translation:
To Julia Domna Augusta, mother of the Augusti ( emended to Augustus) and of the camps, wife of Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, the people of Sabratha (set this up), publicly.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.VII.23)
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