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) 
Iuliae Domnae Augus-
tae matri August«i»-
〚ru[m]〛 et castrorum
Imp(eratoris) Caesaris L(uci) Septi-
5mi Seueri Pii Perti-
nacis Augusti
Sabrathenses
publice
IVLIAEDOMNAEAVGVS
TAEMATRIAVGVST«I»
〚RV[··]〛ETCASTRORVM
IMPCAESARISLSEPTI
5MISEVERIPIIPERTI
NACISAVGVSTI
SABRATHENSES
PVBLICE
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Iuliae
Domnae
Augus
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
tae
matri
August
<del>
<supplied reason="lost" >
o
</supplied>
</del>
<add place="overstrike" >
i
</add>
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
<del>
ru
<supplied reason="lost" >
m
</supplied>
</del>
et
castrorum
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratoris
</ex>
</expan>
Caesaris
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
uci
</ex>
</expan>
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)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.VII.23)

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