Description:
Block (w: 0.68 x h: 0.24 x d: 0.20) of grey limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: from top of block, l. 1, 0.05-0.13; to top of l. 2 (truncated), 0.205. 
Date:
First to second 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) 
[·· ? ··]ọ Macedo[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··?] E[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]·MACEDO[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··?]E[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="" >
o
</unclear>
Macedo
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" id="gap1" />
<orig >
e
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

2, E may be the first letter of the line, or follow a long gap, but in the damaged state of the stone this is not certain.

Translation:

[·· ? ··] Macedo[·· ? ··] (case unknown)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVII.27)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVII.27)

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