296. Dedication to Liber Pater
- Description:
- Marble panel (w: 0.96 x h: 0.40 x d: 0.02).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Third century A.D. capitals, mixed lapidary and Rustic forms: l. 1, 0.10; l. 2. 0.095; 1. 3, 0.08.
- Date:
- Third century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Found in the 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>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Libero
Patri
<lb
n="2"
/>
Genio
coloniae
<lb
n="3"
/>
Lepcitani
publice
</ab>
Translation:
To Liber Pater, genius of the colony, the Lepcitanians publicly.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 898 Leica)
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