Description:
Block (w: 0.90 x h: 0.50 x d: 0.47) of grey limestone, from a monumental inscription.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: from top of block, l.1, 0.20-0.39; to bottom, 0.50.  
Date:
First to second century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, loose in the South East portico of the Curia precinct. 
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) 
[·· ? ··] [co(n-)]s(ul-) pro[co(n-)s(ul-) ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··][·····]SPRO[······· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
co
</supplied>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<ex>
n
</ex>
</supplied>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ul
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
pro
<supplied reason="lost" >
co
</supplied>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ul
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] consul, proconsul [·· ? ··] (case unknown)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:
none.

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