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533. Building dedication for a fountain

Description:: Parts of a marble panel reconstructed from fragments (w: 1.92 x h: 0.54 x d: 0.02).
Text:: Inscribed within an incised tabella ansata, with simple rosettes within the ansae.
Letters:: Second century A.D. capitals: ll. 1-2, 0.075; l. 3, 0.08; l. 4, 0.065.
Date:: 145 A.D. (prosopography)
Findspot:: Lepcis Magna: Theatre, from the fountain against the reverse face of the scaena.
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)

Lacus pec[unia pub[li]ca ampliatus et m[armori]-
bus et columnis itemque Cu[p]idinibus [exorna]-
tus dedicatus est L(ucio) Ḥ[edio Rufo Lolliano Auito]
proco(n)s(ule) C(aio) Vibio Ga[ll]ịọ[ne Claudio Seuer]o leg(ato) pr[(o) pr(aetore)]

LACVSPEC[·····PVB[···]CAAMPLIATVSETM[·······]
BVSETCOLVMNISITEMQVECV[··]IDINIBVS[·······]
TVSDEDICATVSESTL·[·························]
PROCOSCVIBIOGA[···]··[·················]OLEGPR[·····]

<ab>

Lacus

pec

unia

</supplied>

pub

</supplied>

ampliatus

armori

</supplied>

bus

columnis

itemque

</supplied>

idinibus

exorna

</supplied>

tus

dedicatus

est

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

ucio

</ex>

</expan>

</unclear>

edio

</supplied>

Rufo

</supplied>

Lolliano

</supplied>

Auito

</supplied>

<expan>

<abbr>

proco

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

ule

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

aio

</ex>

</expan>

Vibio

</supplied>

</unclear>

</supplied>

Claudio

</supplied>

Seuer

</supplied>

<expan>

<abbr>

leg

</abbr>

<ex>

ato

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

</ex>

</supplied>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

aetore

</ex>

</expan>

</supplied>

</ab>

Translation:

The pool, increased in size at public expense and [decorated] with marbles and columns and also Cupids, was dedicated when Lucius [Hedius Rufus Lollianus Avitus] was proconsul [and] Caius Vibius Gallio Claudius Severus, legate with propraetorian powers.