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) 
[·· ? ··] Ἡρακλῆς
[·· ? ··]ΗΡΑΚΛΗΣ
<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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