297. Fragmentary dedication to Liber Pater
- Description:
- Altar (w: 0.62 x h: 1 .22 x d: 0.60) of white marble.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.34 x h: 0.57); on the side faces, crossed thyrsi in relief. Uniform with 288. The text has been erased.
- Letters:
- Lettering: 0.055
- Date:
- Unknown
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Hadrianic Baths, at the West end of the South portico of the Palaestra.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Not previously published. 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<del>
L
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ibero
</supplied>
Pa
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</del>
tri
</supplied>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<del>
</del>
<unclear
reason=""
>
g
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
e
</supplied>
<unclear
reason=""
>
n
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
io
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
<unclear
reason=""
>
</abbr>
l
</unclear>
<ex>
</expan>
oniae
</ex>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<del>
</del>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
/>
Translation:
To Liber Pater, genius of the colony.
Commentary:
No comment.
- Photographs:
- none.
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