281. Dedication to the Genius of Lepcis

Description:
Moulded base (w: 0.61 x h: 1. 14 x d: 0.50) of coarse dark grey limestone, the face broken away at the top. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Rustic capitals: 0.05. 
Date:
Probably second to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, beside the Temple of Magna Mater.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
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) 
[---]
2Genio col(oniae) Lepc(is)
Mag(nae)
Vlpius Rogatus
5Pao structor
d(ono) d(edit)
[---]
2GENIOCOLLEPC
MAG
VLPIVSROGATVS
5PAOSTRVCTOR
DD
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
<lb n="2" />
Genio
<expan>
<abbr>
col
</abbr>
<ex>
oniae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Lepc
</abbr>
<ex>
is
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Mag
</abbr>
<ex>
nae
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="4" />
Vlpius
Rogatus
<lb n="5" />
Pao
structor
<lb n="6" />
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
ono
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
edit
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

5, The reading PAO STRUCTOR is not in doubt; Pao perhaps for Pavo.

Translation:

[·· ? ··] To the genius of the colony of Lepcis Magna; Ulpius Rogatus Pao, builder, gave this as a gift.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVI.27)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVI.27)

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