Description:
Fragmentary inscription on two curved blocks (together w: 0.40 x h: 0.80 x d: 0.37) of grey limestone.  
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: l. 1, 0.09; l. 2, 0.105. 
Date:
First to second centuries A.D. (lettering)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Hadrianic Baths, lying loose in the East latrine, to which they probably belong.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
R. Bartoccini, Le Terme di Lepcis (Afrika Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, IV), Bergamo, 1929, 82. 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) 
[·· ? ··]ṣius La[··]s et Irene lib[erta ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] et Coṃmodus ẹ[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]·IVSLA[··]SETIRENELIB[······· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]ETCO·MODVS·[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="" >
s
</unclear>
ius
La
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
s
et
Irene
lib
<supplied reason="lost" >
erta
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
et
Co
<unclear reason="" >
m
</unclear>
modus
<unclear reason="" >
e
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

1, [·· ? ··]sius: Or [·· ? ··]bius.

Translation:

[·· ? ··]sius (or [·· ? ··]bius) La[·· ? ··]s and Irene freedwoman [·· ? ··] and Commodus [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1627 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1627 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 248 Lastre)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 248 Lastre)

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