289. Fragmentary dedication to Hercules and Liber Pater
- Description:
- Moulded base (w: 0.68 x h: 1.50 x d: 0.521) of grey limestone; the face badly weathered.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a recessed panel (die, w: 0.34 x h: 0.83) flanked by vertical rinceau borders.
- Letters:
- Rustic capitals: 0.04.
- Date:
- Probably second to third centuries (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, near the South East angle.
- 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"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
id="gap1"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Herc
</supplied>
ul
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
et
</supplied>
<lb
n="3"
/>
Libero
Patri
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="9"
unit="character"
precision="circa"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
diis
p
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
at
</supplied>
rii
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
s
</supplied>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··to Herc]ul[es and] Liber Pater the gods of their forefathers.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVII.6)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVII.5)
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