Description:
Block (w: 0.78 x h: 0.51 x d: 0.12) of grey limestone, much worn. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a tabella ansata (die, w: 0.40 x h: 0.26); one line of Neo-Punic (Neo-Punic 5);. follows the Greek and Latin texts. The Neo-Punic text is a translation of the Latin and Greek.  
Letters:
Irregular capitals: av. 0.035. 
Date:
First to third century A.D. (nomenclature) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: East part of the ruins at Lepcis, found together with 655 and uniform with it. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle.  
Bibliography:
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, VIII:15; Inscriptiones Graecae ad Res Romanas pertinentes, I:937; Bartoccini, Museo di Tripoli,1923, 98. 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) 
Boncaṛ Ṃẹcrasi Clodi-
us medicus

Βώνχαρ Μεχράσι Κλώδι-
ος ἰατρός
BONCA···CRASICLODI
VSMEDICVS

ΒΩΝΧΑΡΜΕΧΡΑΣΙΚΛΩΔΙ
ΟΣΙΑΤΡΟΣ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Bonca
<unclear reason="" >
r
</unclear>
<unclear reason="" >
Me
</unclear>
crasi
Clodi
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
us
medicus
</ab>
<ab>
<lb n="3" />
Βώ
<app type="previouslyread" >
νχαρ
</app>
<app type="previouslyread" >
Μεχράσι
</app>
<app type="previouslyread" >
Κλώδι
</app>
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
<app type="previouslyread" >
ος
</app>
<app type="previouslyread" >
ἰατρός
</app>
</ab>

3-4, Underlined letters were read in 1846 (CIL VIII, 15) but are no longer visible.

Translation:

Boncar Clodius son of Mecrasus, doctor (in Latin)

Boncar Clodius son of Mecrasus, doctor (in Greek)

Commentary:

ll. 1-2. Boncar Mercrasi Clodius. Also in 655, ll. 1-2.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 677 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 677 Leica)

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