Description:
Four fragments of a grey marble panel (the largest, w: 0.25 x h: 0.27 x d: 0.02; one from left edge, one probably from lower edge).  
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
Lettering: ll. 1-2 (second to third centuries A.D. capitals), 0.105 and 0.105; l. 3 (Rustic capitals), 0.085. 
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Theatre.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Not previously published. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.  
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
[Deo Her]culi
gen[io] colon[iae]
Le[pcitani p]ublice
[········]CVLI
GEN[···]COLON[····]
LE[··········]VBLICE
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Deo
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Her
</supplied>
culi
<lb n="2" />
gen
<supplied reason="lost" >
io
</supplied>
colon
<supplied reason="lost" >
iae
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
Le
<supplied reason="lost" >
pcitani
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
p
</supplied>
ublice
</ab>

Translation:

[To the god He]rcules, genius of the colony, the people of Lepcis (set this up) publicly.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. 48.XVI.14)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. 48.XVI.14)

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