Description: Moulded base (w:
0.64 x h:
0.97 x d:
0.59) of grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Irregular capitals (third century CE): 0.09.
Date: Third century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Regio III, insula 8 opposite the
Chalcidicum; found in association with a statue combining the attributes of all three gods.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
I am Liber and the god Love and beautiful Apollo.
Italian translation
Translation by:
Sono Libero, e il dio Amore, e il bell’Apollo.
English translation
Translation source: LSA, 2012
I am Liber, and the god Amor and beautiful Apollo.
Commentary
Recognised as verse by Guey, loc.cit.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 299, whence IRT, 2009, 299; discussed Guey, 1953 341, whence AE 1954.201d; Tantillo-Bigi, 2010, 87, whence LSA, 2012, 2218 (Tantillo and Bigi), EDH (Bigi, 2014) 018194; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 273 Lastre)
Fig. 2. Face: Tantillo (2006)