Description:
Marble block; the right-hand edge is broken, and the upper edge may be broken also.  
Text:
Inscribed on the front and carved on the left face with an amphora. 
Letters:
No description 
Date:
First to fourth century A.D. (nomenclature) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Gasr ed-Doueirat. Seen in 1895 with 755, beside the remains of a mausoleum 20 minutes to the South (see 729).  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1895) 
Bibliography:
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, VIII:22685; after Clermont-Ganneau, Comptes rendus des Séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres, 1903, 341 (with sketch). 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:
Previous publications 
[---?]
uies iuu[·· ? ··]
bus boṇ[·· ? ··]
memoria[·· ? ··]-
biae Ann[·· ? ··]-
5ạṭae quae [uixit an]-
ṇis XVI [uirgin]-
ali pudiciti[a ·· ? ··]
[---?]
VIESIVV[·· ? ··]
BVSBO·[·· ? ··]
MEMORIA[·· ? ··]
BIAEANN[·· ? ··]
5··AEQVAE[·········]
·ISXVI[·······]
ALIPVDICITI[···· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" id="gap1" />
<lb n="1" />
uies
iuu
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
bus
bo
<unclear reason="" >
n
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
memoria
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
biae
Ann
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
<unclear reason="" >
at
</unclear>
ae
quae
<supplied reason="lost" >
uixit
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
an
</supplied>
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
<unclear reason="" >
n
</unclear>
is
<num value="16" >
XVI
</num>
<supplied reason="lost" >
uirgin
</supplied>
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
ali
pudiciti
<supplied reason="lost" >
a
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] to the good memory of [Vi]bia Ann[·· ? ··]ata, who lived for sixteen years with maidenly modesty [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:
none.

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