Description:
Four blocks (lengths, a) and b) together 2.00; c) 1.07; d) 0.62; each × w: x h: 0.50 x d: 0.54) of grey limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: 0.09  
Date:
A.D. 128-138 (titulature, reign) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio IV, ins. 1. From a monumental inscription in the building on the West corner 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
opposite the Chalcidicum. 
Bibliography:
A. Degrassi, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, Roma (Ministero dell'Africa Italiana), vol. I, 1950, III; Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VIII:22670(blocks c) and d) only). 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) 
[Imp(eratori) Caesari diui Trai]ani Parthici f(ilio) diui Nerụ[ae nep(oti) Traia]no [Hadria]no Aug(usto) [pont(ifici) max(imo)]
[trib(unicia) pot(estate) - - - ]II co(n)s(uli) III p(atri) p(atriae) Aẹṃilia Iou[ina ··] suo et p̣[·· c. 9··]
[·········]ANIPARTHICIFDIVINER·[·············]NO[·······]NOAVG[·····]
[····· - - - ]IICOSIIIPPA··ILIAIOV[······]SVOET·[·· c. 9··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
Caesari
diui
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Trai
</supplied>
ani
Parthici
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilio
</ex>
</expan>
diui
Ner
<unclear reason="" >
u
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ae
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
nep
</abbr>
<ex>
oti
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Traia
</supplied>
no
<supplied reason="lost" >
Hadria
</supplied>
no
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
ifici
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
imo
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
unicia
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
pot
</abbr>
<ex>
estate
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<num >
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" extentmax="2" />
II
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
uli
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="3" >
III
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atri
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atriae
</ex>
</expan>
A
<unclear reason="" >
em
</unclear>
ilia
Iou
<supplied reason="lost" >
ina
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
suo
et
<unclear reason="" >
p
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="9" unit="character" precision="circa" />
</ab>

2, Perhaps in suo et pecunia sua, see 314, ll. 1- 2.

2, Aemilia Iou[ina nomine] suo et p[atris·· ? ··] or P[·· ? ··]., Degrassi

Translation:

[To emperor Caesar Traj]an son of [deified Traj]an victor in Parthia, [grandson] of deified Nerva, [holding tribunician power] for the [·· ? ··] time, consul three times, father of the country; Aemilia Iou[ina ?on] her own (?land) and [with her own money·· ? ··]

Commentary:

l. 2. pater patriae. From 128.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1619 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1619 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1620 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1620 Leica)

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