974. Fragment
- Description:
- Fragment of grey marble (w: 0.33 x h: 0.18 x d: 0.06 surviving), the lower edge sawn straight, perhaps from a ?base cut up and re-used.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Irregular Greek capitals, roughly cut: 0.015-0.02, capital and cursive letters mixed.
- Date:
- No indication
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Stored in one of the tabernae of the East Portico of the Forum Severianum.
- Bibliography:
- Not previously published. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds, 'Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania: A Supplement', Proceedings of the British School at Rome 23 (1955), 124-147, no. S.2.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds)
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Ἡρακλῆς
</ab>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] Heracles.
Commentary:
For Heracles at Leptis Magna, where he was Genius Coloniae, see also 286, 287, 288, 289, all in Latin. For another Tripolitanian dedication to him in Greek, see 848.
- Photographs:
- none.
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