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) 
〚L[ibero Pa[tri]〛
〚 g̣[e]ṇ[io] coḷ(oniae) 〛
〚 [---] 〛
〚L[······PA[····]〛
〚·[··]·[···]CO·〛
〚[---]〛
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<del>
L
<supplied reason="lost" >
ibero
</supplied>
Pa
<supplied reason="lost" >
tri
</supplied>
</del>
<lb n="2" />
<del>
<unclear reason="" >
g
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
e
</supplied>
<unclear reason="" >
n
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
io
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
<unclear reason="" >
l
</unclear>
</abbr>
<ex>
oniae
</ex>
</expan>
</del>
<lb n="3" />
<del>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
</del>
</ab>

Translation:

To Liber Pater, genius of the colony.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:
none.

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