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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0291. votive to Julia Domna as Juno

Description: Moulded base (w: 0.74 x h: 1.80 x d: 0.70) of brown limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.31 x h: 0.72).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.05-0.06.

Date: Severan: 193 - 235 CE (prosopography)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, beside the Severan exedra.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Iuliae Domnae
Aug(ustae) Deae Ịụṇọṇị
orbis ṭ[er]ṛae
Q(uintus) Fuluius Dida
5Bibulianus
uot(um) sol(uit)

Diplomatic

IULIAEDOMNAE
AUGDEAE......
ORBIS.[..].AE
QFULUIUSDIDA
5BIBULIANUS
UOTSOL

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To Julia Domna Augusta, the goddess Juno of the world; Quintus Fulvius Dida Bibulianus paid his vow.

Bibliography: Romanelli, 1925, 129, whence AE, 1926.l59; Aurigemma, 1930, 80 ff., fig 3.; mentioned Guey, 1950a 77, whence AE, 1951.230; IRT, 1952, 291, whence IRT, 2009, 291; discussed Guey, 1953 340, whence AE 1954.201b; Laronde, 2005 xxx, whence AE 2005.1662; EDH 018188; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXIV.25)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1563 Leica)

   Fig. 3. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXIV.26)