Description:
Fragment of a panel of Numidian marble (w: 0.827 x h: 0.245, probably from the right-hand side, actual edge missing).  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals, probably second century A.D.: l. 1, 0.085; l. 2, 0.055. 
Date:
Second century 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) 
[·· ? ··]iae
[Au]gusta[e]
[·· ? ··]IAE
[···]GVSTA[··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
iae
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Au
</supplied>
gusta
<supplied reason="lost" >
e
</supplied>
</ab>

Translation:

To [·· ? ··]ia Augusta.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.7)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.7)

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