446. Fragmentary ?dedication to ?Severan emperor

Description:
Three fragments, all probably from the same panel of white marble. 
Text:
Inscribed. a) w: 0.12 x h: 0.18 x d: 0.037, no edges surviving b) w: 0.18 x h: 0.18 x d: 0.027, no edges surviving c) w: 0.155 x h: 0.15 x d: 0.03, no edges surviving  
Letters:
Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.09: 
Date:
The lettering suggests Geta or Seuerus Alexander.  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus 
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) 
a
[·· ? ··]〚·〛 A[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]P̣O[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··]〚···〛[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·· Augu]sto [·· ? ··]
[---]
c
[---]
2[·· ? ··]rum [·· ? ··]
a
[·· ? ··]〚·〛A[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]·O[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··]〚···〛[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·······]STO[·· ? ··]
[---]
c
[---]
2[·· ? ··]RVM[·· ? ··]
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<del>
<gap reason="illegible" extent="1" unit="character" />
</del>
<orig >
a
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
p
</unclear>
o
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<del>
<gap reason="illegible" extent="3" unit="character" />
</del>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Augu
</supplied>
sto
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="c" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
rum
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

(a and c are not usefully translatable). (b) [·· ? ·· to (or by)] Augustus [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

b.. l.2. Augustus. Geta or possibly Severus Alexander. The lettering can hardly be later.

Photographs:

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

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