Description: Moulded base
(w:
0.72 x h:
1.735 x d:
0.68)
of compact brown limestone, with a three quarter column-base above.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel
(die, w:
0.315 x h:
0.725).
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.045-0.035.
Date: CE 198-211 (reign)
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 Augusta mother of the camps, mother of the two 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; the Curia Augusta, deeply devoted to her divine power, set this up.
Commentary
Line 9: From 198.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1950 74, note a, whence mentioned AE 1950.163a; IRT, 1952, 405, whence IRT, 2009, 405, whence EDH 021973; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 265 Leica)