Description:
Wall of a rock-cut terrace.  
Text:
Rock- cut inscription (l.1, length 3.25) on the wall. Since destroyed. 
Letters:
Lettering: l.1, 0.12; l. 2, much smaller. 
Date:
Unknown  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Seen in 1895 on Ras el-Mergheb, incised on the wall of a rock- cut terrace. Since destroyed. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VIII: 22686: after Clermont-Ganneau, Comptes rendus des Séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres, 1903:334 (with sketch); = Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VIII:22. an inferior reading; Antonelli, Notiziario archeologico del Ministero delle Colonie, 4 fascicules, Roma, 1915-1927, III:42; Aurigemma, Annali dell'Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli, 1949 n.s III 57. 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:
Previous publications. 
Celestis sanctissima propitia[···]eamus
[---]
CELESTISSANCTISSIMAPROPITIA[···]EAMVS
[---]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Celestis
sanctissima
propitia
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
eamus
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
</ab>

1, Perhaps, Celestis sanctissima propitiam te habeamus, but the reading is hard to reconcile with the careful sketch by Clermont- Ganneau. which is the only reliable source for the text.

2, The second line, in much smaller characters, was very short.

Translation:

Caelestis, most holy, we beg for your favour [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:
none.

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