The inspiration and model for all those crisp sharp Roman fonts are plaques like this one.
Note the Roman V functioning as a vowel and the balanced space on either side of the T and the descending ratio of letter sizes from Large at top to smaller at the bottom.
The Augustales were a body of priests responsible for offerings to Augustus as a Deity.
The one letter that doesnt quite fit and rises up, the t of et before Iulianus may be an error someone forgetting the t in et but the carver has echoed the style and weight of the T in the top line so it emphasizes the I in Iulianus.
More Augustan Inscriptions and lettering next time.
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