Description:
Block (w: 0.53 x h: 0.59 x d: 0.11) of grey limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face with moulding at top and bottom. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: from top of block; l.1, 0.085- 0.185; l.2, 0.225-0.335; l.3, 0.35-0.425; to bottom, 0.59. 
Date:
First to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Homs; found re-used in a building. (Bartoccini MS notes). 
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) 
[·· ? ··] Caesaris [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]udialisqu[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] diaL(uci) f(ilia) Poli[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]CAESARIS[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]VDIALISQV[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]DIALFPOLI[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
Caesaris
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
udialisqu
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
dia
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
uci
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilia
</ex>
</expan>
Poli
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

2, : Perhaps ... flamen Claudialis qu...

Translation:

[·· ? ··] of Caesar[·· ? ·· ?Cla]udial [·· ? ··] (probably a reference to a priest of the cult of the emperor Claudius at Rome) [·· ? ··]dia Poli[·· ? ··]daughter of Lucius [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XV.38)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XV.38)

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