Description:
Block (w: 0.80 x h: 0.51 x d: 0.43) of compact grey limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face; the lower edge was probably moulded, and the surface of the left part of the inscribed face has been roughly chiselled back. 
Letters:
First century lapidary capitals: from top of block; l. 1, 0.01-0.20; l. 2, 0.24-0.40; to bottom, 0.51. 
Date:
First century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, behind the Temple of Rome and Augustus, west of the Byzantine Wall, near the sea-shore.  
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) 
[·· ? ··] 〚 TR 〛 OL [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] 〚et〛tiu[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]〚TR〛OL[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]〚ET〛TIV[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<del>
<orig >
TR
</orig>
</del>
<orig >
OL
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<del>
et
</del>
tiu
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··](l.2) ? [T]ettiu[s (nominative or accusative)·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XII.18)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XII.18)

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