Description:
Two adjoining fragments of a marble panel (w: 0.11 x h: 0.07 x d: 0.02 and w: 0.095 x h: 0.08 x d: 0.02, no edges surviving) from the right-hand edge of the die of a moulded tabella ansata.  
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving faces. 
Letters:
Second to third centuries lettering: l. 1, c. 0.35; 11. 2- 4. 0.2- 0.025. 
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Severan Harbour - South side. (Rel. Scan. 14.8.29 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.  
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) 
[·· ? ··]di
[·· ? ··]tis
[·· ? ··Ne]ptuni
[·· ? ··]ṇ
[·· ? ··]DI
[·· ? ··]TIS
[·· ? ·····]PTVNI
[·· ? ··]·
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
di
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
tis
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Ne
</supplied>
ptuni
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="" >
n
</unclear>
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] of Neptune [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.17)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.17)

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