504. Fragmentary ?building inscription

Description:
Two fragments probably from the same marble panel. a) w: 0.65 x h: 0.40 x d: 0.025, from the upper edge. b) w: 0.26 x h: 0.19 x d: 0.025, from the lower edge. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
a) Lapidary capitals: l.1, 0.11. b) Lapidary capitals: 0.10. 
Date:
First to early third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded 
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) 
a
[·· ? ·· pont(if-)] [m]ax(im-) trib(unicia) po[t(estate) ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]ỊNṢ[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ·· sua pecuni]a fec[it]
a
[·· ? ·······][··]AXTRIBPO[··········· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]·N·[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ·············]AFEC[···]
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
if
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
m
</supplied>
ax
</abbr>
<ex>
im
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
unicia
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
po
<supplied reason="lost" >
t
</supplied>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<ex>
estate
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="damage" >
i
</unclear>
n
<unclear reason="damage" >
s
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
sua
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
pecuni
</supplied>
a
fec
<supplied reason="lost" >
it
</supplied>
</ab>
</div>

a.2, There may be an intervening line of text, not represented in this fragment.

Translation:

(a. )[·· ? ··] chief [priest], holding tribunician power [·· ? ··]

( b. ) [·· ? ··]he(/she) built this at his(/her) own expense.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

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

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