Description:
Panel (w: 4.56 x h: 0.69 x d: 0.25) and fragment from the left end of similar panel (w: 1.24 x h: 0.65 x d: 0.27), both of grey limestone, inscribed within a moulded border (die of complete panel, w: 4.35 x h: 0.48). The first letter of l. 2 of the fragment is set 0.98 from the border, as against 0.11 on the complete panel, but in all other respects they seem to have been identical.  
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving faces. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: l.1, 0.25: l. 2, 0.16.  
Date:
A.D. 30 (prosopography) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Decumanus maximus. Both found beside the base of a formal arch, which spans the street between Reg. II, ins. 1 and Reg. III, ins 1.  
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.  
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
Augusta Salutaris
C(aius) Vibius Marsus proco(n)[s(ul) I]II dedicauit
AVGVSTASALVTARIS
CVIBIVSMARSVSPROCO[·······]IIDEDICAVIT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Augusta
Salutaris
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
aius
</ex>
</expan>
Vibius
Marsus
<expan>
<abbr>
proco
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
s
</supplied>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<ex>
ul
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<num value="3" >
<supplied reason="lost" >
I
</supplied>
II
</num>
dedicauit
</ab>

2, III´: The superscript bar shows that a figure is lost.

Translation:

Augusta Salutaris. Caius Vibius Marsus, proconsul for the third year dedicated (this).

Commentary:

l. 2. C. Vibius Marsus. Cos. suff. 17 - PIR (1) V 388.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.XXI.28)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.XXI.28)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 817)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 817)

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