450. Fragmentary dedication to Julia Mamaea
- Description:
- Fragments of a pair of uniform marble panels (width, approx. 0.61).
- Text:
- Inscribed within an incised border (die, 0.49); the two panels differ in thickness only (a, 0.02 and b, 0.035-0.04).
- Letters:
- Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.05.
- Date:
- A.D. 222-235 (reign of Severus Alexander)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- 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)
ab
ab
<div
type="textpart"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Iuliae
<del>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</del>
Mamaeae
</supplied>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<del>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</del>
Augustae
matri
</supplied>
<lb
n="3"
/>
Augusti
nostri
<lb
n="4"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Lepcitani
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Sep
</supplied>
<unclear
reason=""
>
timia
</unclear>
ni
<lb
n="5"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
publice
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<div
type="textpart"
n="b"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
Lepcitani
Se
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ptimiani
</supplied>
<lb
n="3"
/>
publice
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
(a) To Julia Mamaea Augusta, mother (all so erased) of our Augustus, the Septimian [Lepcitanians] publicly [·· ? ··]
(b) [·· ? ··] the Septimian Lepcitanians publicly[·· ? ··]
Commentary:
a) ll. 1-2. Mamaeae Augustae matri. Erased after damnatio in 235.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.29)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XII.6)
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