Description:
Fragment from the lower part of a marble panel (w: 0.30 x h: 0.21 x d: 0.03, moulded lower border).  
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
Rustic capitals: 0.02-0.025. 
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus; Found among the late buildings behind the Temple of Magna Mater (Rel. Scav. 21.4.35 
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) 
[·· ? ··]rn[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] ạụg̣enda contulit eṭ[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] et (sestertios) XXXX quae pater ei[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]ui donauerat praeter reli[qu·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]RN[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]···ENDACONTVLITE·[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]ET sestertius XXXXQVAEPATEREI[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]VIDONAVERATPRAETERRELI[····· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
rn
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
aug
</unclear>
enda
contulit
e
<unclear reason="damage" >
t
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
et
<expan>
<abbr>
<am>
<g type="sestertius" > </g>
</am>
</abbr>
<ex>
sestertios
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="40" >
XXXX
</num>
quae
pater
ei
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
ui
donauerat
praeter
reli
<supplied reason="lost" >
qu
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] he/she ?brought together ?to increase and [·· ? ··] and with forty thousand sesterces which his/her father [·· ? ··] had given as well as the rest [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVI.30)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVI.30)

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