408. Dedication to Julia Domna

Description:
Rectangular base (w: 0.50 x h: 0.95 x d: 0.49) of brown limestone, recessed at the sides. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.35 x h: 0.78). 
Letters:
Rustic capitals: ll.1-3, 0.05-0.06, remainder 0.04. 
Date:
A.D. 193-211 (reign) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in the passage between the Temple of Rome and Augustus and the Temple of Liber Pater. 
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 Aug(ustae)
matri Aug〚(ustorum)〛
et castrorum
Messius Atticus c(enturio)
5coh(ortis) VII pr(aetoriae) p(iae) u(indicis)
u(otum) s(oluit)
IVLIAEAVG
MATRIAVG〚〛
ETCASTRORVM
MESSIVSATTICVSC
5COHVIIPRPV
VS
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Iuliae
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
ustae
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
matri
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<del>
<ex>
ustorum
</ex>
</del>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
et
castrorum
<lb n="4" />
Messius
Atticus
<expan>
<abbr>
c
</abbr>
<ex>
enturio
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
coh
</abbr>
<ex>
ortis
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="7" >
VII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
pr
</abbr>
<ex>
aetoriae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
iae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
u
</abbr>
<ex>
indicis
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="6" />
<expan>
<abbr>
u
</abbr>
<ex>
otum
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
oluit
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

2, AVG[[G]]: The second G erased; see 403 n.2.

Translation:

To Julia Augusta, mother of the Augusti (revised to the singular) and of the camps; Messius Atticus, centurion of cohort seven of the praetorian guard, the pious avengers, paid his vow.

Commentary:

l. 4. Messius Atticus. Also in 438, l. 11; 439, l. 13

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVI.31)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVI.31)

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