Description:
Two blocks (w: 1.23 x h: 0.45 x d: 0.45 and w: 0.8 x h: 0.45 x d: 0.45) of grey limestone, all that survive of six which comprised the dedicatory inscription on the South West face of the Arch of Trajan. See also 523, 537.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: l. 1, 0.11; remainder, 0.07. 
Date:
A.D. 110 (titulature) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Arch of Trajan across the main street at the angle of Reg. IV, ins. 2 and 3, and Reg. V, ins. 1 and 3.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VIII:10 (one block only) = p. 2289; Romanelli, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 VII:98ff., figs. 8, 9; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1948:2. Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VIII:22670 ll. 4- 5 is probably derived from a block now lost. 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) 
[Imp(eratori) Cae]sari diui Neru[ae f(ilio) Neruae T]raiano Au[gusto Germ(anico)]
[Dacico pont(ifici)] max(imo) trib(unicia) pot(estate) XIIII im[p(eratori) VI co(n)s(uli) V] p(atri) p(atriae) con[sensu omnium]
[ordo et populus] coloniae Vlpiae Tr[aianae fid]elis Lepcis [Magnae arcum]
cum ornament[is pecunia pub]lica feceru[nt]
[········]SARIDIVINERV[·······]RAIANOAV[···········]
[············]MAXTRIBPOTXIIIIIM[·····]PPCON[·············]
[·····]COLONIAEVLPIAETR[···········]ELISLEPCIS[·············]
CVMORNAMENT[···············]LICAFECERV[···]
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<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Cae
</supplied>
sari
diui
Neru
<supplied reason="lost" >
ae
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilio
</ex>
</expan>
Neruae
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
T
</supplied>
raiano
Au
<supplied reason="lost" >
gusto
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Germ
</abbr>
<ex>
anico
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Dacico
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
ifici
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
imo
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
unicia
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
pot
</abbr>
<ex>
estate
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="14" >
XIIII
</num>
im
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<num value="6" >
VI
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
uli
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="5" >
V
</num>
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atri
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atriae
</ex>
</expan>
con
<supplied reason="lost" >
sensu
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
omnium
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
ordo
et
populus
</supplied>
coloniae
Vlpiae
Tr
<supplied reason="lost" >
aianae
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
fid
</supplied>
elis
Lepcis
<supplied reason="lost" >
Magnae
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
arcum
</supplied>
<lb n="4" />
cum
ornament
<supplied reason="lost" >
is
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
pecunia
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
pub
</supplied>
lica
feceru
<supplied reason="lost" >
nt
</supplied>
</ab>

Translation:

To [ Emperor Cae]sar [Nerva] Trajan Augustus [Germanicus, Dacicus, son] of deified Ne[rva], chief [priest] holding tribunician power for the fourteenth time, acclaimed victor [six times, consul five times], father of the country; [with the agreement of all the city council and the people] of the colony Ulpia Traiana fidelis Lepcis [Magna] had the [arch] built with adornments [at public expense]

Commentary:

l. 2. trib. pot. XIIII - 10 Dec. 109 - 9 Dec. 110.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 928)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 928)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 929)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 929)

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