Description:
Rough block (w: 0.435 x h: 0.11 x d: 0.50) of grey limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one of the narrow faces. 
Letters:
Third to fourth century capitals: 0.045.  
Date:
Third to fourth centuries (lettering)  
Findspot:
Oea: Findspot unrecorded 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle. 
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) 
[·· ? ··] VICVḶM[·]O EỌR pontifice [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] ỌO[·]ẸTṾAẸṬPỌ[·· c. 4··]RPVḄAD[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]VICV·M[·]OE·RPONTIFICE[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]·O[·]·T·A··P·[·· c. 4··]RPV·AD[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
vicv
<unclear reason="" >
l
</unclear>
m
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
<orig >
o
</orig>
<orig >
e
<unclear reason="" >
o
</unclear>
r
</orig>
pontifice
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
o
</unclear>
o
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
e
</unclear>
t
<unclear reason="" >
v
</unclear>
a
<unclear reason="" >
et
</unclear>
p
<unclear reason="" >
o
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="4" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<orig >
rpv
<unclear reason="" >
b
</unclear>
ad
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

2, EOR: perhaps eq(uite) R(omano).

Translation:

[·· ? ··] priest (ablative case)[·· ? ··]

Commentary:

There may have been a reference to an eques Romanus (Roman Knight).

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 683 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 683 Leica)

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