WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0298. Fragmentary dedication to Liber Pater

Description: Limestone base (w: 0.76 x h: 0.51.
Text: Inscribed surface (w: 0.54 x h: 0.29).
Letters: Lettering: line 1, 0.07; line 2, 0.05; remainder, 0.025.

Date: First-third centuries CE (content)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio IV, ; Found in 1934 on the road between the Forum Severianum and the sea-shore (Via del Foro a mare)
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1934).

Interpretive

Libero Patri
genio coloniae
[c. 6]M[..]TO[---]
------
5 [c. 5]b miss[---]

Diplomatic

LIBEROPATRI
GENIOCOLONIAE
[······]M[··]TO[---]
------
5[·····]BMISS[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To Liber Pater, genius of the colony [---]

Bibliography: Relazioni di Scavo, 23.7.34; IRT, 1952, 298, whence IRT, 2009, 298; EDH 059256

Images

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