Dedication to Liber Pater
created: Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
source date: First century CE
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[...], 30-31; [...], 294, whence [...], 294; [...], 25; [...], 300-304, whence [...] 2003.1902; [...], 25; [...], Labdah N17 [...] 045500; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Libero Patri sacrum Boncarth Muthumbalis filius Sydby filius, IIIIuir macelli ex multis denariorum LXII quibus adiecit de suo denarios LIII

mᵓš z ṭynᵓ l ᵓdn šdrpᵓ bdmlqrt bn mtnbᶜl šmkyᵓ̊ mspr[...] h bqr špṭm ṭnᵓt̊ [...] ṭ[...]w ššm wšnm dnᶜryᵓ ḥmšm w šlš

i: Sacred to Liber Pater; Boncath son of Muthumbal, ?sufete, member of the commitee of three for the market set this up using sixty-two denarii raised in fines, to which he added fifty-three denarii from his own fonds.

ii: This statue has been set up to the lord ŠDRPᵓ B̊D̊ MLQRT, son of MTNBᶜL ŠMKYᵓ̊ [ ]il BQR (?) sufetes [ ] and sixty two [ ]fifty-three denari

ii: This is the statue which Bodmelqart ben Muttunba`al Sh.- m.ki set up to the Lord Sh. d. r.p.

ii: Cette statue, l'a élevé au Seigneur Shadrapa Bodmelqart fils de Muthunba [ . . .

ii: only line 1 is clearly legible.

Discussion of the Neo-Punic text: Levi della Vida (1959), 302; Jongeling, K. 1983, ‘Neo-punische-latijnse inscripties uit Lepcis Magna (Libye)’ in , 414; Adams (2003), 227-228; Jongeling (2008), Labdah N17; Cooley (2012), 260.