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403. Dedication to Julia Domna

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

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Iuliae

Augustae

matris

castrorum

matri

<expan>

<abbr>

Aug

</abbr>

<del>

<ex>

ustorum

</ex>

</del>

</supplied>

</expan>

coniugi

inuicti

<expan>

<abbr>

Imp

</abbr>

<ex>

eratoris

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

Caes

</abbr>

<ex>

aris

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

uci

</ex>

</expan>

Septimi

Seueri

Pii

Pertinacis

<expan>

<abbr>

Aug

</abbr>

<ex>

usti

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

Arab

</abbr>

<ex>

ici

</ex>

</expan>

Adiabenici

Parthici

maximi

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

arcus

</ex>

</expan>

Iunius

Punicus

<expan>

<abbr>

proc

</abbr>

<ex>

orator

</ex>

</expan>

sexagenarius

prouinciae

Thraciae

centenarius

Alexan

driae

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.