Description:
Upper left-hand corner of a rectangular marble base (w: 0.24 x h: 0.59 x d: 0.54), 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, surviving measurements, w: 0.17 x h: 0.49).  
Letters:
Late form of Rustic capitals: 0.03-0.04.  
Date:
Third century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, in the central area. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Bartoccini, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940, II:48 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) 
Fabricia[e ·· ? ··]
Fabriciu[s ·· ? ··]
filiae p[iissimae ·· ? ··]
ex decret[o ordinis ·· ? ··]
5sua pe[cunia posuit]
FABRICIA[···· ? ··]
FABRICIV[···· ? ··]
FILIAEP[··········· ? ··]
EXDECRET[············ ? ··]
5SVAPE[·············]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Fabricia
<supplied reason="lost" >
e
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
Fabriciu
<supplied reason="lost" >
s
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
filiae
p
<supplied reason="lost" >
iissimae
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
ex
decret
<supplied reason="lost" >
o
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ordinis
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="5" />
sua
pe
<supplied reason="lost" >
cunia
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
posuit
</supplied>
</ab>

Translation:

To Fabricia [·· ? ··] Fabricius [·· ? ··] to a most dutiful daughter [·· ? ··] set this up at his own expense in accordance with a decree of the city council.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1553 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1553 Leica)

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