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Text:
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Letters:
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Date:
No indication  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: West of the city, not far from the shore: seen by Delaporte in 1806, not seen again 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1806) 
Bibliography:
Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 5363 a) = Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, VIII:7, note = 10997, recording Delaporte's transcription. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.  
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1ον παῖδά μ’ [ἀποφθῖσθαι μίτος ὡς ἐπέ]-
κλωσεν ὁ Μοιρῶν παῖδά με [τυ]μβε[ῦ]-
σαι καὶ ἀφε[γγ]έα νύκτα περᾶσαι.
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1ΟΝΠΑΙΔΑΜ’[···············]
ΚΛΩΣΕΝΟΜΟΙΡΩΝΠΑΙΔΑΜΕ[···]ΜΒΕ[··]
ΣΑΙΚΑΙΑΦΕ[···]ΕΑΝΥΚΤΑΠΕΡΑΣΑΙ
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ον
παῖδά
μ’
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ἀποφθῖσθαι
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ἐπέ
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κλωσεν
Μοιρῶν
παῖδά
με
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τυ
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μβε
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σαι
καὶ
ἀφε
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γγ
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έα
νύκτα
περᾶσαι
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Translation:

[·· ? ··] for me to die as a child, since the thread of the Fates spun that I should be buried as a child and come to the darkness without light.

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