Description:
Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.16 x h: 0.165 x d: 0.04, no edges surviving).  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Second to third centuries A.D. capitals: l. 1, 0.065; l. 2, 0.04. 
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum. 
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) 
[·· ? ··]s Afer [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·· de] suo [·· ? ··]
[---]
[·· ? ··]SAFER[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·····]SVO[·· ? ··]
[---]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
s
Afer
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
de
</supplied>
suo
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] Afer [·· ? ··] at his own expense [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.7)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.7)

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