Description:
Base, in plan three sides of an octagon (maximum width w: 0.68 x h: 0.28 x d: 0.34), moulded at the top and bottom of the three faces. 
Text:
Inscribed on the central face (die, w: 0.41 x h: 0.15). Uniform width 400 and 429 which are dated by 400 in 216. 
Letters:
Rustic capitals: l. 1, 0.025; l. 2, 0.03; l. 3, 0.025; l. 4, 0.02. 
Date:
A.D. 216 from dates of matching dedications 400 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Severan Basilica, West aisle. 
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 Augustae matri imperatoris Caes(aris)
M(arci) Aurelli Antonini Pii Felicis Augusti
et castrorum <et> senatus et patriae
Lepcitani Septimiani
IVLIAEAVGVSTAEMATRIIMPERATORISCAES
MAVRELLIANTONINIPIIFELICISAVGVSTI
ETCASTRORVM<ET>SENATVSETPATRIAE
LEPCITANISEPTIMIANI
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Iuliae
Augustae
matri
imperatoris
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
aris
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arci
</ex>
</expan>
Aurelli
Antonini
Pii
Felicis
Augusti
<lb n="3" />
et
castrorum
<supplied reason="omitted" >
et
</supplied>
senatus
et
patriae
<lb n="4" />
Lepcitani
Septimiani
</ab>

Translation:

To Julia Augusta, mother of emperor Caesar Marcus Aurellius Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus and of the camps and of the senate and of the (?his) country; the Septimian Lepcitanians.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 333 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 333 Leica)

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