Description: Fragmentary altar of white marble (surviving, w:
0.33 x h:
0.94 x d:
0.45),
right-hand face missing; uniform with 297.
Text: Inscribed on one face; on the left- hand face, a cyathus ornamented with acanthus volutes;
Letters: No description
Date: First-third centuries CE (content)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio II,
Hadrianic Baths, in front of the small shrine at the East end of the South portico of the Palaestra.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Hercules, genius of the colony [---] a Temple [--- by decree of the most splendid?] city-council.
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1929, 30; IRT, 1952, 288, whence IRT, 2009, 288; EDH 059250; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XVII.15)
Fig. 2. Face: Tantillo (2008)
Fig. 3. Right side and back: Tantillo (2008)
Fig. 4. Right side, detail: Tantillo, 2008 (P1050826)
Fig. 5. Left side: Tantillo (2008)
Fig. 6. Top: Tantillo (2008)