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Editor: N.Rafetseder

Text:

Iuliae Mamaeae Aug(ustae)

matris Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris)

[M(arci)] Aureli Severi

[Ale]xandri Pii Fel(icis)

5  Augusti et castror(um)

res p(ublica) col(oniae) Aug(ustae) Tyndạṛ(itanorum)

ḍẹṿọṭạ ṇụṃị[ni.

(Fasolo 2013)

Translation: “To Iulia Mamaea Augusta, the mother of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander Pius Felix Augustus, mater castrorum, the res publica of the Augustan colony of the Tyndaritani devoted to [her] divine power [set this up]”. (N.Rafetseder).

Find Spot: Tindari (area of the Theatre?)

Support: fragmentary marble slab (h. 65 x l. 54)

No./Current location: Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas, no. 3569 (fixed on the left wall of the great yard)

Dating: 223-235 AD (Fasolo)

Bibliography: CIL X, 7478; EDR142429; TM491858; EDCS-22100597 (photo); ISic0068; L.BIVONA, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Palermo 1970, 80, no. 69, tav. XLIII (photo); R.V.NIND HOPKINS, The Life of Alexander Severus, Cambridge 1907, 197; G.MANGANARO, La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano, ANRW II, 11.1, Berlin-New York 1988, 3-89, 78; E.DIEHL, s.v. Tyndaris, RE 7,2, 1994, 1776-1790, 1782; R.J.A.WILSON, Towns of Sicily during the Roman Empire, ANRW II, 11.1, Berlin-New York 1988, 90-206, 140, no. 167; M.FASOLO, Tyndaris e il suo territorio. Volume 1. Introduzione alla carta archeologica del territorio di Tindari, Roma 2013, 76-77, no. 11, fig. 40 (photo); L.PFUNTNER, Celebrating the Severans: Commemorative Politics and the Urban Landscape in High Imperial Sicily, Latomus 75.2, 2016, 434-456, 443.