Description:
Rectangular base (w: 0.44 x h: 1.04 x d: 0.52) of compact brown limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.20 x h: 0.61).  
Letters:
Capitals with some Rustic forms: ll. 1-8, av. 0.04; ll. 9-10, 0.03. 
Date:
Second century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in the exedra at the South East angle.  
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) 
M(arco) Licinio
Flacco Iu-
niori ex
testam(e)n-
5[t]o Licini
Augusta-
lis Cl(audius) Clau-
dianus
h(eres) p(osuit)
10 p(ermissu) s(plendidissimi) o(rdinis)
MLICINIO
FLACCOIV
NIORIEX
TESTAMN
5[··]OLICINI
AVGVSTA
LISCLCLAV
DIANVS
HP
10PSO
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arco
</ex>
</expan>
Licinio
<lb n="2" />
Flacco
Iu
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
niori
ex
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
testam
</abbr>
<ex>
e
</ex>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
t
</supplied>
o
</abbr>
</expan>
Licini
<lb n="6" />
Augusta
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
lis
<expan>
<abbr>
Cl
</abbr>
<ex>
audius
</ex>
</expan>
Clau
<lb n="8" type="worddiv" />
dianus
<lb n="9" />
<expan>
<abbr>
h
</abbr>
<ex>
eres
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
osuit
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="10" />
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
ermissu
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
plendidissimi
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
o
</abbr>
<ex>
rdinis
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

To Marcus Licinius Flaccus Iunior; in accordance with the will of Licinius Augustalis, Claudius Claudianus his heir, set (this) up, with permission of the most splendid city-council.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XII.16)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XII.16)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 913)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 913)

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