279. Dedication to Antinous Frugifer
- Description:
- Right-hand side of a panel (w: 0.32 x h: 0.51 x d: 0.04) of white marble.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Rather irregular capitals; ll.1- 3, 0.06; l. 4, 0.055.
- Date:
- After 130 A.D. (deification of Antinous)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: From the Forum Vetus, Temple of Liber Pater.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- Bibliography:
- Reports and Monographs of the Department of Antiquities in Tripolitania, Tripoli, vol. I, 1948, II:2930 L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.), 1950:205 Relazioni Scavi (weekly reports filed in the Archives of the Superintendency of Antiquities, Tripoli), 27:5:34. 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"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Anti
</supplied>
noo
<lb
n="2"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
d
</supplied>
eo
<lb
n="3"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Fru
</supplied>
gifero
<lb
n="4"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Lepcita
</supplied>
ni
publice
Translation:
To Antinous, god who brings fruits; the Lepcitanians (set this up) publicly.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
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