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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1229. Dedication? to Julia Maesa

Description: Fragmentary block of limestone, w: 0.37 x h: 0.48 x d: 0.195
Text: Inscribed on the face
Letters: 0.055

Date: 222-235 CE (reign)

Findspot: Bu Njem: Fort, in the Principia
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum

Interpretive

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PMP̣Ọ [...]
IUII[---]
[mat]ri[...]
5⟦[Alexandri]⟧ Pịị F̣ẹḷ(icis) Aug(usti)
⟦[et] [Iul(iae) Auitae Mamaeae]⟧
⟦[matris]⟧ Aug(usti) n(ostri) eṭ cast[rorum]
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Diplomatic

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PM..[···]
IUII[---]
[...]RI[···]
5⟦[.........]⟧P.....AUG
⟦[..][................]⟧
⟦[......]⟧AUGNE.CAST[.....]
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English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ] ?mother [ . . . ] of Alexander Pius, Felix, Augustus and of Julia Avita Mammaea, mother of our Augustus and of the camps [ . . .

Bibliography: Rebuffat, 1970 70-49, pp 139-140, whence EDCS 59800045

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