Description:
Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.15 x h: 0.175 x d: 0.02, no edges surviving).  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: 0.07. 
Date:
A.D. 138 (reign) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Found in the Forum Severianum. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.  
Bibliography:
Relazioni Scavi (weekly reports filed in the Archives of the Superintendency of Antiquities, Tripoli) 9.6.28. 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) 
[Im]p(eratori) T(ito) A[elio Caesari Antonino ·· ? ··]
[· P]lautiu[·· ? ··]
[···]PTA[························ ? ··]
[···]LAVTIV[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Im
</supplied>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
T
</abbr>
<ex>
ito
</ex>
</expan>
A
<supplied reason="lost" >
elio
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Caesari
Antonino
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
P
</supplied>
lautiu
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[To em]peror Titus A[elius Caesar Antoninus·· ? ··] Plautius [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

l.1: Probably before the death of Hadrian.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.12)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.12)

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