Description:
Fragment of a marble pilaster, re-used. 
Text:
Inscribed on the reverse face (w: 0.37 x h: 0.21 x d: 0.05, lower edge). 
Letters:
Rustic capitals: 0.13. 
Date:
Second to third century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Homs; Found in 1950 in the outskirts to the West. 
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) 
[·· ? ··]ibus FK(- - -) ALTAV [·· ? ··] cum p[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]IBVSF stop K stop (- - -)ALTAV[·· ? ··]CVMP[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
ibus
<abbr>
F
<am>
<g type="stop" > </g>
</am>
K
<am>
<g type="stop" > </g>
</am>
</abbr>
<orig >
altau
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
cum
p
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

(Not usefully translatable.)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:
none.

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