Description:
Part of the lower right-hand corner of a panel of white marble (w: 0.49 x h: 0.36 x d: 0.02). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Second to third centuries A.D. capitals: l.1, 0.145; l.2, 0.12.  
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Theatre. 
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) 
[·· ? ··]s Au[gust]
[·· ? ·· Lepci]tani publice
[·· ? ··]SAV[·····]
[·· ? ········]TANIPVBLICE
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
s
Au
<supplied reason="lost" >
gust
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Lepci
</supplied>
tani
publice
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] Augustus (case uncertain) [·· ? ··] the Lepcitanians publicly.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 290 Lastre)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 290 Lastre)

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