Description:
Hexagonal panel (w: 0.14 x h: 0.13 x d: 0.025) of yellow marble.  
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
Irregular capitals (not earlier than third century): 0.03. 
Date:
Not earlier than the third century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Wadi Er-saf; From the old cemetery on the West side between Lepcis and Homs 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.  
Bibliography:
Relazioni Scavi (weekly reports filed in the Archives of the Superintendency of Antiquities, Tripoli) 29.10.27 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) 
D(is) m(anibus)
Nyfthae
DM
NYFTHAE
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
is
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
anibus
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
Nyfthae
</ab>

Translation:

To the gods below of Nyftha.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.11)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.11)

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