299. Title for an image of Liber Pater, Amor and Apollo
- Description:
- Moulded base (w: 0.64 x h: 0.97 x d: 0.59) of grey limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Irregular capitals (third century A.D.): 0.09.
- Date:
- Third century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Regio III, ins. 8 opposite the Chalcidicum; found in association with a statue combining the attributes of all three gods.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Bibliography:
- Not previously published. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Sum
Liber
<lb
n="2"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Amorq
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ue
</ex>
deus
<lb
n="3"
/>
et
pulcher
Apollo
Translation:
I am Liber and the god Love and beautiful Apollo.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 273 Lastre)
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