Description:
Fragment from the lower part of a marble panel (w: 0.26 x h: 0.25 x d: 0.04), the surface badly abraded. 
Text:
Inscribed within a moulded border. 
Letters:
Second century capitals: ll. 2-3, 0.03; l. 4, 0.055.  
Date:
Second century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum (Rel. Scav. 14.4. 28) 
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) 
[---]
2 [·· ? ·· ex (sestertiis) - - - ] m(ilibus) n(ummum) d(e) s(ua) p(ecunia) d(edit) [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]uae coniu[gi ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]s Tiberin[us ·· ? ··]
[---]
2[·· ? ················ - - - ]MNDSPD[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]VAECONIV[····· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]STIBERIN[····· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
ex
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
<am>
<g type="sestertius" > </g>
</am>
</abbr>
<ex>
sestertiis
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<num >
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" extentmax="4" />
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
ilibus
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
ummum
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
e
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ua
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
ecunia
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
edit
</ex>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
uae
coniu
<supplied reason="lost" >
gi
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
s
Tiberin
<supplied reason="lost" >
us
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] gave [?this] at the cost of [·· ? ··] thousand sesterces of his own money [·· ? ··] to his wife [·· ? ··] Tiberin[?us·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.12)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.12)

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