Description: Moulded base
(w:
0.67 x h:
1.54 x d:
0.66) of brown limestone,
with an additional square plinth above.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel
(die w:
0.325 x h:
0.50); on the left-hand face a jug,
on the right a patera, both in low relief.
Letters: Rustic capitals: 0.04-0.025.
Date: CE 198-211 (reign)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V,
Theatre, in one of the lower tiers of the cavea, West end.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Julia Augusta, 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; the Curia Julia set this up, being deeply devoted to her divine power.
Commentary
Line 8. Parthicus Maximus. From 198.
Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1950, 74, note b, whence mentioned AE 1950.163b; IRT, 1952, 406, whence IRT, 2009, 406, whence EDH 021976; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 264 Lastre)