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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Iuliae
Domnae
<lb
n="2"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ustae
</ex>
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>
</expan>
uintus
</ex>
Fuluius
Dida
<lb
n="5"
/>
Bibulianus
<lb
n="6"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
uot
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
um
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
sol
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uit
</ex>
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.
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