Description:
Part of a marble block (w: 0.65 x h: 0.43 x d: 0.29) with a moulded upper border.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Rustic capitals: 0.14. 
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded. Formerly in Homs Museum. 
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) 
[·· ? ··]ṣ Cerialis Calpu[rnius ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]·CERIALISCALPV[········ ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="" >
s
</unclear>
Cerialis
Calpu
<supplied reason="lost" >
rnius
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] Cerealis Calpurnius (the case is presented as a nominative but might be a genitive) [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

l. 1. Cerialis Calpurnius. See also 676, l. 3.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 804)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 804)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XV.14)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XV.14)

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