Description:
Apotropaic street sign (w: 1.24 x h: 0.59 x d: 0.50): within a tabella ansata, a phallic century with an enormous nose spearing an eye with a trident; grouped around the eye, a scorpion, a serpent and a bird. 
Text:
Inscribed in the upper part of the panel. 
Letters:
Capitals: 0.010-0.011 
Date:
No indication  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Theatre; Found in the rear portico, loose beside street to north.  
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) 
Mal v. er
MAL ER
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Mal
<space extent="1" unit="character" />
er
</ab>

Translation:

Not usefully translatable.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XII.27)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XII.27)

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