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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0037. Dedication to Julia Domna by Sabratha

Description: Marble block (w: 0.570 x h: 0.80 x d: 0.42).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Capitals, with some Rustic forms: 0.04.

Date: CE 198-210 (reign, titulature)

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio I, Basilica, in the early south exedra.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Iuliae Domnae Augus-
tae matri August«i»-
⟦ru[m]⟧ et castrorum
Imp(eratoris) Caesaris L(uci) Septi-
5mi Seueri Pii Perti-
nacis Augusti
Sabrathenses
publice

Diplomatic

IULIAEDOMNAEAUGUS
TAEMATRIAUGUST«I»
⟦RU[.]⟧ETCASTRORUM
IMPCAESARISLSEPTI
5MISEUERIPIIPERTI
NACISAUGUSTI
SABRATHENSES
PUBLICE

2: I recut over erased O.

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To Julia Domna Augusta, mother of the Augusti ( emended to Augustus) and of the camps, wife of Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, the people of Sabratha (scil. set this up), publicly.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 37, whence IRT, 2009, 37, whence EDH 059032; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.VII.23)