287. Dedication to Hercules
- Description:
- Four fragments of a grey marble panel (the largest, w: 0.25 x h: 0.27 x d: 0.02; one from left edge, one probably from lower edge).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- Lettering: ll. 1-2 (second to third centuries A.D. capitals), 0.105 and 0.105; l. 3 (Rustic capitals), 0.085.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Theatre.
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Deo
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Her
</supplied>
culi
<lb
n="2"
/>
gen
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
io
</supplied>
colon
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
iae
</supplied>
<lb
n="3"
/>
Le
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
pcitani
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
p
</supplied>
ublice
Translation:
[To the god He]rcules, genius of the colony, the people of Lepcis (set this up) publicly.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. 48.XVI.14)
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