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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0327. Dedication to Livia

Description: Low moulded base (w: 0.66 x h: 0.46 x d: 0.50) of grey limestone, inscribed on one face; one of a series of five uniform bases, see also 326, 333, 337, 340. Dated by 337 in 45- 46.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Irregular capitals: 0.06-0.07.

Date: CE 45-46 (see 337)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, behind the Temple of Rome and Augustus.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Diuae
Augu(stae)

Diplomatic

DIUAE
AUGU

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To the deified Augusta.

Commentary

Livia, deified in 42.

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1940c, 31ff., fig. 16, whence AE 1948.13; IRT, 1952, 327, whence IRT, 2009, 327, whence EDH 019701; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 942)