Description:
Fragment of Numidian marble (w: 0.14 x h: 0.17, no edges surviving), part of a fluted pilaster, re-used.  
Text:
Inscribed on the reverse face. Just possibly a quarry-mark, although the inscribed surface has been dressed. 
Letters:
Roughly incised capitals: 0.02. 
Date:
Perhaps 191 A.D. (consuls)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Hadrianic Baths (Rel. Scav. 5.7.26 
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) 
[·· ? ··] EBRADVV [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]it Calist[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]EBRADVV[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]ITCALIST[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
EBRADVV
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
it
Calist
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

1, Possibly Pedone Bradua co(n)s(ulibus), 191. Above l. 1 is a rough surface, which may represent an erased line.

Translation:

[·· ? ··] ?when Pedo and Bradua [were consuls·· ? ··] Calist[·· ? ··] (case of final name not known.)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:
none.

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