Description:
Lintel (width incomplete w: 1.70 x h: 0.43 x d: 0.60) of grey limestone, re-used as the upright of an olive-press; two slots have been cut in the inscribed face and the right-hand end is missing. 
Text:
Inscribed in two lines, each line within a re-cessed panel (w: 1.20 x h: 0.10), with simple, incised, linear ornament between the two panels and right-hand one of which is missing ; in the right-hand one of which is missing; in the left-hand ansa Α tau-rho Ω 
Letters:
Capitals: 0.07. 
Date:
No indication  
Findspot:
Eastern Djebel: Umm el-Msareb; Seen by Romanelli in 1915, and rediscovered and copied by Oates in 1949, in the ruins of olive-presses, South West of Ghlil (map ref. M 178278). 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1949) 
Bibliography:
Romanelli, , XXIV-V: 29 (text not given). 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 (Oates) 
[·· c. 8··]ICOMACHI SN[ - - - ]STRIS
IEBASCLVMEINSTITVENTEṚ[·· 5-6··]
[·· c. 8··]ICOMACHISN[ - - - ]STRIS
IEBASCLVMEINSTITVENTE·[·· 5-6··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="8" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<orig >
icomachi
</orig>
<orig >
sn
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" extentmax="3" />
<orig >
stris
</orig>
<lb n="2" />
<orig >
iebasclumeinstituente
<unclear reason="" >
r
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="5" unit="character" extentmax="6" />
</ab>

1, icomachi: Perhaps [N]icomachi.

2, The last legible letter is possibly a B.

Translation:

(Not usefully translatable, but perhaps l.1 contained the name Nicomachus.)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. A. 594-6(?))
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. A. 594-6(?))
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR

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