298. Fragmentary dedication to Liber Pater
- Description:
- Limestone base (w: 0.76 x h: 0.51.
- Text:
- Inscribed surface (w: 0.54 x h: 0.29).
- Letters:
- Lettering: l. 1, 0.07; l. 2, 0.05; remainder, 0.025.
- Date:
- Unknown
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Found in 1934 on the road between the Forum Severianum and the sea- shore (<< Via del Foro a mare, >> )
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Since lost. Not seen.
- Bibliography:
- Relazioni Scavi (weekly reports filed in the Archives of the Superintendency of Antiquities, Tripoli), 23.7.34 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:
- Previous publications
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Libero
Patri
<lb
n="2"
/>
genio
coloniae
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="6"
unit="character"
precision="circa"
/>
<orig
>
m
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
TO
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
/>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="5"
unit="character"
precision="circa"
/>
b
miss
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
To Liber Pater, genius of the colony [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
- Photographs:
- none.
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