303. Dedication to Mercury and Minerva

Description:
Base in the form of an ornamental pilaster of grey limestone(w: 0.34 x h: 1.44 x d: 0.34) rounded in front, flattened and fluted at the sides; carved in one piece with base and capitals, the capitals of individual local forms, in the front derivative from Ionic, on the sides from Corinthian. Inscribed on the front. a) On the abacus. b) In the tabella ansata below the capitals 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
a) Rustic capitals: 0.04. b)Rustic capitals: 0.035.  
Date:
Probably second to third centuries. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: City centre. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle.  
Bibliography:
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VIII:22668; P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, fig. 21. 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) 
a
Merc(urio) et Mineruae
b
Animosạ
Symm(achi) fi(lia) d(edit) d(edicauit)
a
MERCETMINERVAE
b
ANIMOS·
SYMMFIDD
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Merc
</abbr>
<ex>
urio
</ex>
</expan>
et
Mineruae
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Animos
<unclear reason="" >
a
</unclear>
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Symm
</abbr>
<ex>
achi
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
fi
</abbr>
<ex>
lia
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
edit
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
edicauit
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>
</div>

b.2, Written: Sym.m.fi.d.d.

Translation:

a. To Mercury and Minerva. b.Animosa, daughter of Symmachus, gave and dedicated (this).

Commentary:

a) l. 1. See also 304.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. A. 161)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. A. 161)

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