Description:
Block of grey limestone (w: 0.65 x h: 0.45, depth unknown); later re-used, the left-hand face being cut to form a cornice moulding. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face with the right-hand end of a monumental inscription. 
Letters:
First century A.D. capitals: l. 1, 0.075 l. 3, 0.055.  
Date:
First century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Theatre, Chalcidicum - found in the street between the two. 
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) 
[·· ? ·· R]ufo
[---]
3 [·· ? ·· patr]ono
[·· ? ····]VFO
[---]
3[·· ? ·······]ONO
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
R
</supplied>
ufo
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="line" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
patr
</supplied>
ono
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] to Rufus [·· ? ··] to their patron

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1834 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1834 Leica)

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