492. Fragmentary ?dedication

Description:
Two fragments of a marble panel (w: 0.07 x h: 0.10 x d: 0.025 and w: 0.23 x h: 0.16 x d: 0.025, no edges surviving).  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Mannered Rustic capitals: 0.07. 
Date:
Second to early third centuries A.D. (titulature, lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: 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) 26.9.30 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) 
[I]mp(erator-) [Ca]es(ar-) M(arc-) Au[reli ·· ? ··]
[··]MP[···]ESMAV[······· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
I
</supplied>
mp
</abbr>
<ex>
erator
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Ca
</supplied>
es
</abbr>
<ex>
ar
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arc
</ex>
</expan>
Au
<supplied reason="lost" >
reli
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius [·· ? ··] (case unknown)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIII.20)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIII.20)

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