538. Fragmentary ?building inscription

Description:
Not seen.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
No description 
Date:
First to third centuries A.D. (titulature) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Port; "Près du port" as recorded in 1685 by a French traveller. Since lost. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Cumont, Rivista della Tripolitania (Rivista a cura dell'Ufficio di Colonizzazione del Governo della Tripolitania), 2 vols., Roma, 1924-5; a third vol., under the title Libya, published for the Ministero delle Colonie, was issued in 1927, II:154, II:157. 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:
Previous publications 
[·· ? ··] PROCVLVS RO PR DEDICAVIT
MAECIVS CNE FAL HACCVS SVA P
[·· ? ··]PROCVLVS RO PR DEDICAVIT
MAECIVS CNE FAL HACCVS SVA P
[·· ? ··]PROCVLVSLEGPROPRDEDICAVIT
CMAECIVSCNFFALFLACCVSSVAPECVNIAFECIT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
PROCVLVS RO PR DEDICAVIT
</orig>
<lb n="2" />
<orig >
MAECIVS CNE FAL HACCVS SVA P
</orig>
</ab>
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
Proculus
<expan>
<abbr>
leg
</abbr>
<ex>
atus
</ex>
</expan>
pro
<expan>
<abbr>
pr
</abbr>
<ex>
aetore
</ex>
</expan>
dedicauit
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
aius
</ex>
</expan>
Maecius
<expan>
<abbr>
Cn
</abbr>
<ex>
aei
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilius
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Fal
</abbr>
<ex>
erna tribu
</ex>
</expan>
Flaccus
sua
pecunia
fecit
</ab>

Reconstructed Text

[·· ? ··] Proculus leg(atus) pro pr(aetore) dedicauit
C(aius) Maecius Cn(aei) f(ilius) Fal(erna tribu) Flaccus sua pecunia fecit

Translation:

[·· ? ··] Proculus, ? propraetorian legate, dedicated (this); Caius Maecius Flaccus, son of Cnaeus, of the Roman voting tribe Falerna, set it up at his own expense.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:
none.

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