Description:
Marble panel (w: 0.505 x h: 0.50). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face.  
Letters:
Mannered capitals with some Rustic forms: 0.03. Not earlier than second century A.D. See contra, previous publications; but material and lettering are decisive. 
Date:
Not earlier than second century A.D. (lettering, marble) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded. Formerly in Homs Museum 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum. 
Bibliography:
Bartoccini, Rivista della Tripolitania (Rivista a cura dell'Ufficio di Colonizzazione del Governo della Tripolitania), 2 vols., Roma, 1924-5; a third vol., under the title Libya, published for the Ministero delle Colonie, was issued in 1927 II:70; Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 III:88, fig. 6; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.), 1931:3; Caputo, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 VI:102ff., fig. 9. 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) 
Narcisso Aug(usti) lib(erto)
architecto
Aquilia Hedone
marito optimo
5fecit
NARCISSOAVGLIB
ARCHITECTO
AQVILIAHEDONE
MARITOOPTIMO
5FECIT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Narcisso
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
lib
</abbr>
<ex>
erto
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
architecto
<lb n="3" />
Aquilia
Hedone
<lb n="4" />
marito
optimo
<lb n="5" />
fecit
</ab>

Translation:

To Narcissus, freedman of Augustus, architect; Aquila Hedone had this made for a very good husband.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR

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