Description:
Right-hand side of a panel (w: 0.32 x h: 0.51 x d: 0.04) of white marble.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Rather irregular capitals; ll.1- 3, 0.06; l. 4, 0.055.  
Date:
After 130 A.D. (deification of Antinous) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: From the Forum Vetus, Temple of Liber Pater. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum. 
Bibliography:
Reports and Monographs of the Department of Antiquities in Tripolitania, Tripoli, vol. I, 1948, II:2930 L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.), 1950:205 Relazioni Scavi (weekly reports filed in the Archives of the Superintendency of Antiquities, Tripoli), 27:5:34. 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) 
[Anti]noo
[d]eo
[Fru]gifero
[Lepcita]ni publice
[·····]NOO
[··]EO
[····]GIFERO
[········]NIPVBLICE
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Anti
</supplied>
noo
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
d
</supplied>
eo
<lb n="3" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Fru
</supplied>
gifero
<lb n="4" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Lepcita
</supplied>
ni
publice
</ab>

Translation:

To Antinous, god who brings fruits; the Lepcitanians (set this up) publicly.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.8)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.8)

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