295. Votive dedication to Liber Pater
- 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)
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)
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