Description:
Architrave block (w: 1.12 x h: 0.55 c. 0.55) of compact grey limestone, with a moulding along the lower edge and sockets for beams at the back; inscribed on the face, considerably weathered.  
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
First century lapidary capitals: from top of block l. 1, 0.04-0.20; I. 2, 0.28-0.40: moulding 0.475-0.55. 
Date:
First century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: On the sea-shore West of the Forum Vetus, beside the remains of an early Imperial structure.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925134; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.)1926:162 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) 
[·· ? ·· C]ornut[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··templu]m Neptun[i ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ····]ORNVT[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·········]MNEPTVN[···· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
C
</supplied>
ornut
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
templu
</supplied>
m
Neptun
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] Cornutus (case unknown) [·· ? ··?templ]e of Neptune [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.11)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.11)

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