Description:
Limestone
block, probably a lintel, moulded above and stepped back twice at the left (the only surviving) side,
broken away at the right and chipped below (w:
1.90 x h:
0.61 x d:
0.48).
Text: Inscribed on the panel.
Letters: Line 1, 0.13; line 2, 0.10.
Date: First century BCE to first century CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
near the West Gate, among the ruins of a building on the north side of the Decumanus;
photographed in 1927.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Al padre Libero la cittadinanza dei Teuchiresi, col pubblico danaro
English translation
Translation by: Editors
For Liber pater, the city of the T[eucheirans] . . . from public money.
Commentary
Della Cella, 1819, 198-9, describes a temple among the ruins of Tocra whose sculpture suggested that it was dedicated to Bacchus, but it has not been identified.
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 469, p. 238, pl. LXXXIV, fig. 52, whence AE 1939.0278, whence EDH 023043.
Text constituted from: Transcription from photograph (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Inscribed face (1927, Department of Antiquities, F 1082)