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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0296. Dedication to Liber Pater

Description: Marble panel (w: 0.96 x h: 0.40 x d: 0.02).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Third century CE capitals, mixed lapidary and Rustic forms: line 1, 0.10; line 2. 0.095; 1. 3, 0.08.

Date: Third century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio V, Found in the Theatre.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Libero Patri
Genio coloniae
Lepcitani publice

Diplomatic

LIBEROPATRI
GENIOCOLONIAE
LEPCITANIPUBLICE

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To Liber Pater, genius of the colony, the Lepcitanians publicly.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 296, whence IRT, 2009, 296; EDH 059254; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 898 Leica)