Description:
Moulded marble base (w: 0.90 x h: 1.55 x d: 0.90) 
Text:
Inscribed on front and back (see also 543); on the right-hand side a jug, on the left lituus, both in low relief. The first line is cut above the die; there are formal sprays at the beginning and end of ll. 2 and 4 
Letters:
Fourth century A.D. capitals; 0.05 
Date:
Fourth century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded 
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; including revisions from J. M. Reynolds, 'Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania: A Supplement', Proceedings of the British School at Rome 23 (1955), 124-147 
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
Λέπκις ἡ μεγάλη φιλισερώμη
spray Genio spray
coloniae
spray Lepcis spray
5Magnae
Crescentinae
ΛΕΠΚΙΣΗΜΕΓΑΛΗΦΙΛΙΣΕΡΩΜΗ
spray GENIO spray
COLONIAE
spray LEPCIS spray
5MAGNAE
CRESCENTINAE
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Λέπκις
μεγάλη
φιλισερώμη
<lb n="2" />
<g type="spray" > </g>
Genio
<g type="spray" > </g>
<lb n="3" />
coloniae
<lb n="4" />
<g type="spray" > </g>
Lepcis
<g type="spray" > </g>
<lb n="5" />
Magnae
<lb n="6" />
Crescentinae
</ab>

1, Or perhaps φιλησιρώμη.

Translation:

Lepcis, the great (city); Rome loves you. (or) Lepcis, great city, lover of Rome.

To the genius of the colony of Lepcis Magna Crescentina

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 373 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 373 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 27)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 27)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 332)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 332)

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