Description: Moulded marble
base
(w:
0.60 x h:
1.50 x d:
0.48). Uniform with 392, 422, 434,
which are dated from 482 in 200-201
Text: Inscribed on one face within a recessed panel.
(die, w:
0.20 x h:
0.68).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.03-0.023.
Date: Between 10 Dec. CE 200 - 9 Dec. 201. (prosopography)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Theatre, near the West end of the orchestra.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Julia August, mother of the camps, mother of the Augusti (revised to the singular), wife of the unconquered Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia; Marcus Junius Punicus, equestrian imperial agent at a salary of about sixty thousand sesteries in the province of Thrace, at one hundred thousand in Alexandria, at the temple of Mercury.
Commentary
Line 3: The second G erased after the damnatio of Geta in 212. He received the title Augustus officially in 209, but many of the Tripolitanian inscriptions which so designate him may well be of earlier date; see 913
M. Iunius Punicus: PIR, I 0802, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/7996
Bibliography: Caputo, 1940, 166 ff., fig. l9; IRT, 1952, 403, whence IRT, 2009, 403, whence EDH 059322.See Laronde, 2005 168, whence AE 2005.1662; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. View: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Fig. 2. View: Tantillo (2003)
Fig. 3. Face: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Fig. 4. Face: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 763 Leica)
Fig. 5. Face: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 774 Leica)