Description:
Rectangular base (w: 0.46 x h: 0.66 x d: 0.42) of grey limestone, now in fragments; 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within moulded panel (die, w: 0.24 x h: 0.42).  
Letters:
Irregular Rustic capitals: l. 1, 0.06; ll. 2,5, 0.05; l. 3, 0.035; l. 4, 0.025; ll. 6-7, 0.03. 
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Port on the East Mole, re-used in the sixth century defences 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.  
Bibliography:
Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 III:89, fig. 7. 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) 
L(ucius) Gr[a]nius
Sollers
Paulianus
permissu ord[i]nis
5Graniae
Iouinae
filiae piissimae
LGR[··]NIVS
SOLLERS
PAVLIANVS
PERMISSVORD[··]NIS
5GRANIAE
IOVINAE
FILIAEPIISSIMAE
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
ucius
</ex>
</expan>
Gr
<supplied reason="lost" >
a
</supplied>
nius
<lb n="2" />
Sollers
<lb n="3" />
Paulianus
<lb n="4" />
permissu
ord
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
nis
<lb n="5" />
Graniae
<lb n="6" />
Iouinae
<lb n="7" />
filiae
piissimae
</ab>

Translation:

Lucius Granius Sollers Paulianus, with permission of the city council, to Grania Iovina, his most dutiful daughter.

Commentary:

ll. 1-3. L. Granius Sollers Paulianus. Also in 708, ll. 1-3.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVII.17)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVII.17)

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