Inscriptions: Votive inscription for Liber Pater

Identification

Reference as:	MPL00382
Title	Votive inscription for Liber Pater
Trismegistos-No.	199628

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place	Oea
Find Context	The original location is unknown, but the base was reused in an Arab house in the Tripoli Oasis.
Latitude	32.8976
Longitude	13.1753
Current Location	Tripoli, National Museum
Inventory number
Current Location Details
Vicinity	[{"coords": [32.8976, 13.1753], "id": 382, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/382", "long_id": "MPL00382", "place": "Oea", "text": "Liber Pater s[a]nctissime arcem [hanc q]ui\u0323 p\u0323ossi\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://irt2021.inslib.kcl.ac.uk/images/wp0286.jpg", "title": "Votive inscription for Liber Pater"}, {"coords": [32.638, 14.2914], "id": 383, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/383", "long_id": "MPL00383", "place": "Leptis Magna", "text": "Iouigena Liber Pater uotum quod destinaueram Lari \u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://irt2021.inslib.kcl.ac.uk/images/wp0351.jpg", "title": "Dedication to Liber Pater"}, {"coords": [32.638, 14.2914], "id": 435, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/435", "long_id": "MPL00435", "place": "Leptis Magna", "text": "Sum Liber, Amorq(ue) deus et pulcher Apollo.", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Dedication for an image of Liber Pater, Amor, and Apollo"}, {"coords": [32.638, 14.2914], "id": 436, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/436", "long_id": "MPL00436", "place": "Leptis Magna", "text": "\u0394\u03bf\u03c5\u03bb\u03ba\u1fd6\u03c4\u03b9\u00b7 \u0395\u1f30\u03ba\u1f79\u03bd\u03b1 \u03c7\u03b1\u03bb\u03ba\u03b5\u1f79\u03c4\u03b5\u03c5\u03ba\u03c4\u03bf\u03bd \u1f10\u03b8\u1f75\u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf \u03c4\u1f75\u03bd\u03b4\u03b5 \u03a3\u03b5\u03c1\u1f73\u03bd\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Honorary epigram on the base of a statue for Aurelius Sempronius Serenus Dulcitius"}, {"coords": [32.805, 12.4854], "id": 443, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/443", "long_id": "MPL00443", "place": "Sabratha", "text": "Concesit fort[unam] michi tam gra[to] gratia inpro\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Invocation on a mosaic"}, {"coords": [32.638, 14.2914], "id": 844, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/844", "long_id": "MPL00844", "place": "Leptis Magna", "text": "Sum Liber Amorq(ue) deus et pulcher Apollo", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Votive inscription from Lepcis Magna \u2013 Al Khums (Africa Proconsularis) - HD018194"}, {"coords": [32.638, 14.2914], "id": 845, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/845", "long_id": "MPL00845", "place": "Leptis Magna", "text": "Iovigena Liber Pater votum quod destinaveram Lari \u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Votive inscription from Lepcis Magna \u2013 Al Khums (Africa Proconsularis) - HD018197"}, {"coords": [32.638, 14.2914], "id": 1057, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/1057", "long_id": "MPL01057", "place": "Leptis Magna", "text": "[\u0394[---]] [\u039f[---]] [\u03a5[---]]\u0394[---] [\u039b[---]]\u039a\u03a4\u0395\u0391[---]\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Votive inscription from Lepcis Magna \u2013 Al Khums (Africa Proconsularis) - HD067618"}, {"coords": [32.9166, 12.1113], "id": 1829, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/1829", "long_id": "MPL01829", "place": "Locri", "text": "\u03a0\u03bf\u03bb\u03bb\u03bf\u1f76 \u03a4\u039f\u039d [\u23d4 \u2015 \u23d4 \u2015 \u23d4 \u2015 \u23d1 \u23d1 \u2015 \u23d2]\u039b\u03bf\u03ba\u03c1\u1ff6\u03bd \u0394\u03ad\u03be\u03b1\u0323\u03bd\u0323\u03b4\u0323\u03c1\u0323\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Inscription from Locri - EDR163396"}, {"coords": [32.9166, 12.1113], "id": 1832, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/1832", "long_id": "MPL01832", "place": "Locri", "text": "------[---]\u0395\u039f\u03a3\u03a4\u0397\u03a6\u0395\u03a3\u0323 [c. 8][\u0391\u03c3\u03ba\u03b9 \u039a]\u03b1\u03c4\u0323\u03b1\u03c2[\u03ba\u03b9] \u03a5\u03c3\u03c3\u03ba\u03b9\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Inscription from Locri - EDR163805"}]

Object Details

Object Type	base
Material	limestone
State of Preservation	fragmentary
Dimensions	width: 44.0 cm height: 72.0 cm depth: 44.0 cm
Letter Size in cm (min)	2.5
Letter Size in cm (max)	4.0
Execution Technique	incised
Religion	Pagan

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography	The object is a moulded base carved in one block with an Attic base, and it is inscribed on just one face.
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

Text

Function	dedication / votive inscription
Language(s)	Latin
Verse Type(s)	Iambic quaternarius
Rhythmisation	Quantitative scheme

Inscription & Translations

Diplomatic Interpretative Verse Visualisation

LIBERPATERS[]NCTISSIME
ARCEM[]VOSSIDES
[]TADS[]RAM
V[]BIS[---]VGIS
5ETHI[---]VOTVMDICO
DENTESDVOSLVCAEBOVIS

Liber Pater s[a]nctissime
arcem [hanc q]uị p̣ossides
[e]t ad s[acram a]ram
u[r]bis [---]ugis
5et hi[c ---] uotum dico
dentes duos Lucae bouis

Liber Pater s[a]nctissime
arcem [hanc q]uị p̣ossides
[e]t ad s[acram a]ram
u[r]bis [---]ugis
et hi[c ---] uotum dico
dentes duos Lucae bouis

Apparatus

Texts follows IRT 231.
3-4 [e]t ad s[acellu(m) vove]ram | u[r]bis [vicemq(ue) coni]ugis Courtney, Musa Lapidaria.

Main Translation

Translation	O most holy Father Liber, who are the master of this citadel ... at this sacred altar ... of the city ... of my wife (?), and here ... I dedicate two elephant tusks to you.
Citation	Team MAPPOLA

Other Translations

Prosopographical Information

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze?	no

Dating

Date (From)	193 AD
Date (To)	211 AD
Date (Criteria)	formulae

Bibliography

CIL 08, 10488 (= CIL 08, 11001)
IRT 231
CLEAfr 3
CLE 2716
AE 1922, 00110
AE 1942/43, 00003
AE 1953, 00186
AE 1957, 00244
D. Pikhaus, Répertoire des inscriptions latines versifiées de l'Afrique romaine (Ier– VIe siècles), Bruxelles 1994, 30-31. 🔗 link
E. Courtney, Musa lapidaria. A selection of Latin verse inscriptions, Atlanta 1995, 134-135, 344 n. 137. 🔗 link
C. Hamdoune, Parure monumentale et paysage dans la poésie épigraphique de l'Afrique romaine: Recueil de carmina latina epigraphica, Bordeaux 2016, 215. 🔗 link

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Work Status	Confirmed
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