Description:
Fragment from the lower part of a marble panel (w: 0.22 x h: 0.14 x d: 0.02). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face; the reverse face shows traces of the border of an earlier inscription. 
Letters:
Third century capitals: l. 2, 0.04; l. 3, 0.035. 
Date:
Third century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus 
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) 
[·· ? ··]os[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]ali suf[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·· q]uadrigam [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]OS[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]ALISVF[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ····]VADRIGAM[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
os
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
ali
suf
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
q
</supplied>
uadrigam
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] (l.2) ? sufete (case and number not known) [·· ? ··] a four-horse chariot (accusative case ) [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.31)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.31)

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