Description:
Block (approx. w: 0.80 x h: 0.22 x d: 0.48) of brown limestone, much weathered.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Third to fourth century capitals: 0.025-0.03.  
Date:
Third to fourth centuries A.D. (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) 
[·· ? ·· publ]ịc̣e merito eorum i[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·······]··EMERITOEORVMI[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
publ
</supplied>
<unclear reason="" >
ic
</unclear>
e
merito
eorum
i
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] publicly by their merits [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 687 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 687 Leica)

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