Fragmentary <rs type="textType">dedication</rs> to Hercules and Liber PaterJ. M. ReynoldsJ. B. Ward-Perkins

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Republished from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.

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Description of Monument

Moulded base ( 0.68 1.50 0.521) of grey limestone; the face badly weathered.

Description of Text

Inscribed on one face within a recessed panel (die, 0.34 0.83) flanked by vertical rinceau borders.

Description of Letters

Rustic capitals: 0.04.

Date

Probably second to third centuries (lettering)

Locations

Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, near the South East angle.

Unknown

Findspot

Bibliography

Not previously published.

Text constituted from

Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)

Text Herculi et Libero Patri diis patriis
Translation

to Hercules and Liber Pater the gods of their forefathers.

Commentary

No comment.

Photographs

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVII.6)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVII.5)