Description:
Two fragments of a marble panel (w: 0.50 x h: 0.35 x d: 0.05 and w: 0.26 x h: 0.21 x d: 0.05, no edges surviving).  
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.12.  
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Theatre.  
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) 
a
[---]
1[·· ? ·· u]etustate [·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··]R[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··conla]bsum res[tituit ·· ? ··]
a
[---]
1[·· ? ····]ETVSTATE[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··]R[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ········]BSVMRES[········· ? ··]
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="line" />
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
u
</supplied>
etustate
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
R
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
conla
</supplied>
bsum
res
<supplied reason="lost" >
tituit
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

(a) [·· ? ··] with age [·· ? ··] ; (b) he/she/they restored the collapsed [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1680 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1680 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVI.9)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVI.9)

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