Description:
Column of cipollino, after re-use, h: 2.50 above pavement-level. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
0.03. 
Date:
No indication  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Colonnaded Street; Re-used in the South West nave arcade of the small Church beside the street, to the South West of the Forum Severianum. 
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) 
Κ(ύρι)ε βο(ήθει)
monogram
ΚΕΒΟ
MONOGRAM
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Κ
</abbr>
<ex>
ύρι
</ex>
<abbr>
ε
</abbr>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
βο
</abbr>
<ex>
ήθει
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
monogram
</ab>

Translation:

Lord help [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

For the use of this formula in Africa, see Rev. Arch. 1903, ii, 68.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XV.25)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XV.25)
Sketch from a squeeze (from IRT p. 195)
 Sketch from a squeeze (from IRT p. 195)

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