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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0280. Dedication to the Genius of Lepcis

Description: Marble panel (w: 0.91 x h: 1.53 x d: 0.04).
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Rustic capitals: line 1- 2, 0.095; line 3, 0.08.

Date: Probably second to mid-third centuries CE (lettering)

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

Interpretive

Genio col(oniae) Lepcis
Magnaẹ
Lepcitani publice

Diplomatic

GENIOCOLLEPCIS
MAGNA.
LEPCITANIPUBLICE

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To the Genius of the colony of Lepcis Magna; the Lepcitanians (scil. set this up) publicly.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 280, whence IRT, 2009, 280, whence EDH 059244; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 272)