Description:
Fragment, the lower right-hand corner of a panel (surviving measurements, w: 0.47 x h: 0.66 x d: 0.03) of cream marble.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Fourth century A.D. capitals (formed of punched holes): 0.09. 
Date:
Fourth century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, in the first taberna to the south of the main entrance to the Basilica. 
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) 
[---]
2[·· ? ··] [m]ax(im-)
[·· ? ·· lib]ertatis
[---]
2[·· ? ··][··]AX
[·· ? ······]ERTATIS
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
m
</supplied>
ax
</abbr>
<ex>
im
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
lib
</supplied>
ertatis
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] greatest [·· ? ··] of liberty.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXX.5)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXX.5)

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