Dedication to Liber Pater
created: Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
source date: First-third centuries CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Liber Pater sanctissime arcem hanc qui possides et ad sacram aram urbis [...]ugis et hic [...] uotum dico dentes duos Lucae bouis

Liber pater sanctissime arcem meam qui possides et ad sacellum uoueram urbis tuum et coniugis et hic tibi uotum dico dentes duos Lucas bouis

Most holy Father Liber, who are the master of my citadel, I had vowed at your shrine ?in the city also for my wife and here I dedicate to you what I promised, two elephant tusks.

Line 6 Lucae bouis is an elephant; also in 295, line 11.

Jean Guey regards the text as a verse in Iambic dimeters and restores as above. The restorations proposed in line 2 and 4 are acceptable on epigraphic grounds and surviving traces of letters are compatible. They are more difficult in line 3 where there seems to be insufficient space for sacellum , and line 5 where there appear to be traces of S after HIC