Description:
Lower part of a block (height and depth incomplete: w: 1.26 x h: 0.255 x d: 0.26) of grey limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals (decapitated): c. 0.17; to bottom of block, 0.14. 
Date:
First to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Perhaps to be identified with CIL VIII, 22669, described in 1694 as 'sur le bord de la mer'. 
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) 
Imp(erator-) Ca[es(ar-) ·· ? ··]
IMPCA[········ ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
erator
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Ca
<supplied reason="lost" >
es
</supplied>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<ex>
ar
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

1, The letters CA are followed by a gap, which may be due to wear, but conveys the impression that the text was left unfinished.

Translation:

Emperor Caesar (case unknown)[·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1613 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1613 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXX.18)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXX.18)

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