Description:
Rectangular base (w: 0.82 x h: 1.02 x d: 0.47) of grey marble. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.40 x h: 0.76).  
Letters:
Rustic capitals: 0.04.  
Date:
A.D. 198-209 (reign)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in the exedra at the South East angle.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 VII:79ff., fig. 15 L'Ann. Ep., 1942- 3:2. 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) 
Iouigena Liber Pater
uotum quod destinaueram
Lari Seueri patrio
Iouigenae solis mei
5Pudens pater pro filio
ob tribunatus candidam
et ob praeturam proximam
tantamque in nos princip(um)
conlatam indulgentiam
10conpes uotorum omnium
dentes duos Lucae bouis
Indorum tuorum dico
IOVIGENALIBERPATER
VOTVMQVODDESTINAVERAM
LARISEVERIPATRIO
IOVIGENAESOLISMEI
5PVDENSPATERPROFILIO
OBTRIBVNATVSCANDIDAM
ETOBPRAETVRAMPROXIMAM
TANTAMQVEINNOSPRINCIP
CONLATAMINDVLGENTIAM
10CONPESVOTORVMOMNIVM
DENTESDVOSLVCAEBOVIS
INDORVMTVORVMDICO
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Iouigena
Liber
Pater
<lb n="2" />
uotum
quod
destinaueram
<lb n="3" />
Lari
Seueri
patrio
<lb n="4" />
Iouigenae
solis
mei
<lb n="5" />
Pudens
pater
pro
filio
<lb n="6" />
ob
tribunatus
candidam
<lb n="7" />
et
ob
praeturam
proximam
<lb n="8" />
tantam
que
in
nos
<expan>
<abbr>
princip
</abbr>
<ex>
um
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="9" />
conlatam
indulgentiam
<lb n="10" />
conpes
uotorum
omnium
<lb n="11" />
dentes
duos
Lucae
bouis
<lb n="12" />
Indorum
tuorum
dico
</ab>

8, PRINCIPP Severus and Caracalla, from 196.

Translation:

(Statue of) Liber Pater, son of Jupiter, the offering which I had destined for the Lar of the home city of Severus, the son of Jupiter, who is my sun, my father Pudens (paid) on behalf of his son, on account of my candidature for the tribunate (at Rome) and my subsequent praetorship and the great indulgence which the two principes have conferred on us; as an offering which comprises all that I have vowed I dedicate two elephant tusks from your own Indian animals.

Commentary:

l. 11. Luca bos. An elephant. See also 231, l. 6.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 918)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 918)

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