Description:
Rectangular base (w: 0.60 x h: 0.45 x d: 0.60) of coarse grey limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Irregular capitals: 0.07. 
Date:
First to fifth century A.D. (terminology)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Gasr el-Gelediah; From the mausoleum to the south of the city. Formerly in Homs Museum. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.  
Bibliography:
P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, 165. 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) 
[·· ? ··] Ari-
nis f(ilius) Tapafius
Diodorus Nizaz
sibi et suis
5fecit
[·· ? ··]ARI
NISFTAPAFIVS
DIODORVSNIZAZ
SIBIETSVIS
5FECIT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
Ari
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
nis
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilius
</ex>
</expan>
Tapafius
<lb n="3" />
Diodorus
Nizaz
<lb n="4" />
sibi
et
suis
<lb n="5" />
fecit
</ab>

Translation:

Tapufius Diodorus Nizaz, son of Arin, had (this) ade for himself and his family.

Commentary:

ll. 2-3. Tapafius Diodorus Nizaz. See 319, n. 8.

Photographs:
none.

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