Description:
Fragment of a panel (w: 0.11 x h: 0.13, no edges surviving) of grey marble. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Roughly incised capitals: 0.03. 
Date:
First to third century A.D. (titulature) 
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) 
[·· ? ··] ic(- - -) leg[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]t uixi[t ·· ? ··]
[annos] XXXX[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]IC(- - -)LEG[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]TVIXI[···· ? ··]
[······]XXXX[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<abbr>
ic
</abbr>
leg
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
t
uixi
<supplied reason="lost" >
t
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
annos
</supplied>
<num value="40" >
XXXX
</num>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] ?of legion [·· ? ··] he lived forty (up to forty-nine) years [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.31)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.31)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.9)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.9)

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