Description:
Two blocks ( a) w: 1.87 x h: 0.51 x d: 0.50 and b) w: 0.33 x h: 0.52 x d: 0.49) of grey limestone, probably from the same inscription. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Mannered capitals. a) from top of block, l. 1, 0.09-0.30; to bottom, 0.51. b) from top of block, l. 1, 0.10-0.30; to bottom, 0.52. 
Date:
First to third century A.D. (lettering)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Decumanus maximus; a) Regio III, ins. 1, beside the main street. Severan Arch; b) Regio I, South East of the arch . 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
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) 
a
[·· ? ··] Scipione
b
[·· ? ·· de]dicau[it ·· ? ··]
a
[·· ? ··]SCIPIONE
b
[·· ? ·····]DICAV[····· ? ··]
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
Scipione
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
de
</supplied>
dicau
<supplied reason="lost" >
it
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

(a) [·· ? ··] by (or with ) Scipio. (b) he/she/they dedicated [·· ? ··] (the published text gives a singular.)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.XXI.27)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.XXI.27)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVI.20)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVI.20)

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