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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0450. Fragmentary dedication to Julia Mamaea

Description: Fragments of a pair of uniform marble panels (width, approx. 0.61).
Text: Inscribed within an incised border (die, 0.49); the two panels differ in thickness only (a, 0.02 and b, 0.035-0.04).
Letters: Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.05.

Date: CE 222-235 (reign)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum.

Interpretive

a
Iuliae ⟦[Mamaeae]
[Augustae matri]⟧
Augusti nostri
[Lepcitani Sep]ṭịṃịạni
5[publice ---]
b
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Lepcitani Se[ptimiani]
publice [---]

Diplomatic

a
IULIAE⟦[.......]
[.............]⟧
AUGUSTINOSTRI
[............].....NI
5[.......---]
b
------
LEPCITANISE[........]
PUBLICE[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(a) To Julia Mamaea Augusta, mother (all erased) of our Augustus, the Septimian [Lepcitanians] publicly [---]

(b) [---] the Septimian Lepcitanians publicly[---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 450, whence IRT, 2009, 450, whence a: EDH 059353, b: EDH 067676; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. a: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XII.6)

   Fig. 2. b: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.X.29)