Description:
Colonnette (diam. 0.28 height 1.78) of grey limestone, capped by a finial. 
Text:
Inscribed within a moulded panel, (die, w: 0.24 x h: 0.18). 
Letters:
Irregular capitals: 0.025-0.03. 
Date:
First to fourth century A.D. (terminology)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Wadi Lebdah; Found on the right bank, north of the present coast road. 
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, 158. 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) 
Tetia L(uci) l(iberta) Prima
sibi et L(ucio) Tetio L(uci) l(iberto)
Meiantho uiro
suo et suis
TETIALLPRIMA
SIBIETLTETIOLL
MEIANTHOVIRO
SVOETSVIS
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Tetia
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
uci
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
l
</abbr>
<ex>
iberta
</ex>
</expan>
Prima
<lb n="2" />
sibi
et
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
ucio
</ex>
</expan>
Tetio
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
uci
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
l
</abbr>
<ex>
iberto
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
Meiantho
uiro
<lb n="4" />
suo
et
suis
</ab>

Translation:

Tetia Prima, freedwoman of Lucius, (had this made) for herself and for Lucius Tetius Meianthus, freedman of Lucius, her husband, and their family.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B 448)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B 448)

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