Description:
Damaged architrave block of compact grey limestone (w: 0.51 x h: 0.43 x d: 0.50) with moulding above, from a monumental inscription. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: 0.19. 
Date:
First to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Punic Market (Reg. V, ins. 4-5). 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
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) 
[·· ? ··]Ṿ[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]·[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
u
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

Not usefully translatable, although what survives may be the figure five.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XI.21)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XI.21)

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