Description:
Fragment from the lower part of a marble panel (w: 0.55 x h: 0.43).  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.05. 
Date:
Second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
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) 
[---]
2Lepcit[ani]
numin[i] eius
deuotissimi
5publice
[---]
2LEPCIT[····]
NVMIN[··]EIVS
DEVOTISSIMI
5PVBLICE
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
<lb n="2" />
Lepcit
<supplied reason="lost" >
ani
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
numin
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
eius
<lb n="4" />
deuotissimi
<lb n="5" />
publice
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] the Lepcitanians, deeply devoted to his(/her) divine power (set this up) publicly.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.8)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.8)

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