288. Fragmentary dedication to Hercules

Description:
Fragmentary altar of white marble (surviving, w: 0.33 x h: 0.94 x d: 0.45), right-hand face missing: Uniform with297.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face; on the left- hand face, a cyathus ornamented with acanthus volutes; 
Letters:
Unstated. 
Date:
Unknown  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Hadrianic Baths, in front of the small shrine at the East end of the South portico of the Palaestra. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
R. Bartoccini, Le Terme di Lepcis (Afrika Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, IV), Bergamo, 1929, 30. 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) 
〚 [He]rculi〛
〚 [ge]ṇ [i]o c[o]l(oniae) 〛
[·· c. 6··]〚ọnio〛
[---?]
5 [···] 〚ṭẹmp̣lu[m] 〛
[---?]
[·· ? ··]〚AP̣A〛[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·· 〚s]plẹnḍ[idissimi] 〛
[·· ? ··] 〚ordiṇiṣ〛
〚[···]RCVLI〛
〚[···]·[··]OC[··]L〛
[·· c. 6··]〚·NIO〛
[---?]
5[···]〚··M·LV[··]〛
[---?]
[·· ? ··]〚A·A〛[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··〚··]PL·N·[·········]〛
[·· ? ··]〚ORDI·I·〛
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<del>
<supplied reason="lost" >
He
</supplied>
rculi
</del>
<lb n="2" />
<del>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ge
</supplied>
<unclear reason="" >
n
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
o
<expan>
<abbr>
c
<supplied reason="lost" >
o
</supplied>
l
</abbr>
<ex>
oniae
</ex>
</expan>
</del>
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="6" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<del>
<unclear reason="" >
o
</unclear>
nio
</del>
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" id="gap1" />
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<del>
<unclear reason="" >
te
</unclear>
m
<unclear reason="" >
p
</unclear>
lu
<supplied reason="lost" >
m
</supplied>
</del>
<lb n="6" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" id="gap2" />
<lb n="7" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<del>
<orig >
a
<unclear reason="" >
p
</unclear>
a
</orig>
</del>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="8" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<del>
<supplied reason="lost" >
s
</supplied>
pl
<unclear reason="" >
e
</unclear>
n
<unclear reason="" >
d
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
idissimi
</supplied>
</del>
<lb n="9" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<del>
ordi
<unclear reason="" >
n
</unclear>
i
<unclear reason="" >
s
</unclear>
</del>
</ab>

Translation:

To Hercules, genius of the colony [·· ? ··] a Temple [·· ? ·· ? by decree of the most splendid] city-council.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVII.15)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVII.15)

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