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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0407. Dedication to Julia Domna

Description: Rectangular base (w: 0.505 x h: 0.93 x d: 0.505) of brown limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.305 x h: 0.73).
Letters: Rustic capitals 0.06-0.055.

Date: CE 193-211 (reign)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio V, In the portico behind the Theatre, South side.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Iuliae Aug(ustae)
matri
August⟦o[rum]⟧i
et castrorum
5 D(ecimus) Clodius Galba
proc(urator)

Diplomatic

IULIAEAUG
MATRI
AUGUST⟦O[...]⟧I
ETCASTRORUM
5DCLODIUSGALBA
PROC

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To Julia Augusta, mother of the Augusti (revised to the singular) and of the camps; Decimus Clodius Galba, equestrian imperial agent.

Commentary

D. Clodius Galba: RE 12, Clodius 31a, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/4596

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 407, whence IRT, 2009, 407, whence EDH 059324; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Face: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 117 Lastre)

   Fig. 2. View: Tantillo (2005)