514. Fragmentary ?dedication

Description:
Two fragments, the upper and lower parts of a moulded base. a) w: 0.65 x h: 0.50 b) w: 0.50 x h: 0.65 of grey limestone. 
Text:
Re-inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.97 x ), from which a previous inscription has been erased.  
Letters:
Fourth century A.D. capitals: 0.03-0.04. 
Date:
Fourth century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, South Portico. 
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) 
a
Liberatori
orbis [·· c. 4··]
[---]
b
[---]
2[·· c. 4··] d(euot-) n(umini) m(aiestati)que
eius
a
LIBERATORI
ORBIS[·· c. 4··]
[---]
b
[---]
2[·· c. 4··]DNMQVE
EIVS
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Liberatori
<lb n="2" />
orbis
<gap reason="lost" extent="4" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="4" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
euot
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
umini
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
aiestati
</ex>
<abbr>
que
</abbr>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
eius
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

a. To the liberator of the world [·· c. 4 ··] b. [·· ? ··] devoted to his divine power and majesty.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1552 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1552 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1553 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1553 Leica)

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