Description:
a) Marble architrave blocks from the lowest order of each of the six projecting elements of the scaenae frons of the Theatre (surviving length, together w: 29.42 x ). Found fallen and re-used as steps: now restored to their original position. b) Fragments, possibly from the corresponding architrave block over the central door. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
a) Lapidary capitals: 0.18. b 1) Lettering: 0.14; 2) Lettering: 0.17. 
Date:
145 A.D. (prosopography) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Now restored to their original position. 
Bibliography:
A. Degrassi, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, Roma (Ministero dell'Africa Italiana), vol. I, 1950, III 1954 This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952; including revisions from J. M. Reynolds, 'Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania: A Supplement', Proceedings of the British School at Rome 23 (1955), 124-147 
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
a
Proṣc̣ạẹṇịụṃ columnis [e]t marmoribus ex (sestertiis) CC a Marcio Vitale itemque ex (sestertiis) CCC a Iunio Galba in eam rem pec(unia) publ(ica) exornatum dedicatum est L(ucio) Hedio Rufọ [Lo]lliano Auito proco(n)s(- - -)(ule) C(aio) Vibio Gallione Claudio Seue[ro] leg(ato)
b1
[·· ? ··]NA[·· ? ··]
2
[·· ? ··]LAC[·· ? ··]
a
PRO········COLVMNIS[··]TMARMORIBVSEX sestertius CCAMARCIOVITALEITEMQVEEX sestertius CCCAIVNIOGALBAINEAMREMPECPVBLEXORNATVMDEDICATVMESTLHEDIORVF·[···]LLIANOAVITOPROCOS(- - -)CVIBIOGALLIONECLAVDIOSEVE[···]LEG
b1
[·· ? ··]NA[·· ? ··]
2
[·· ? ··]LAC[·· ? ··]
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Pro
<unclear reason="" >
scaenium
</unclear>
<milestone unit="unspecified" />
columnis
<supplied reason="lost" >
e
</supplied>
t
marmoribus
<milestone unit="unspecified" />
ex
<expan>
<abbr>
<am>
<g type="sestertius" > </g>
</am>
</abbr>
<ex>
sestertiis
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="200000" >
CC
</num>
a
Marcio
Vitale
itemque
ex
<expan>
<abbr>
<am>
<g type="sestertius" > </g>
</am>
</abbr>
<ex>
sestertiis
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="300000" >
CCC
</num>
a
Iunio
Galba
in
eam
rem
<milestone unit="unspecified" />
<expan>
<abbr>
pec
</abbr>
<ex>
unia
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
publ
</abbr>
<ex>
ica
</ex>
</expan>
exornatum
dedicatum
est
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
ucio
</ex>
</expan>
Hedio
Ruf
<unclear reason="" >
o
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Lo
</supplied>
lliano
Auito
<milestone unit="unspecified" />
<abbr>
<expan>
<abbr>
proco
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
</expan>
</abbr>
<expan>
<ex>
ule
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
aio
</ex>
</expan>
Vibio
Gallione
Clau
<milestone unit="unspecified" />
dio
Seue
<supplied reason="lost" >
ro
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
leg
</abbr>
<ex>
ato
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<div type="textpart" n="1" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
na
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="2" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
lac
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
</div>

a, Vertical lines indicate the interrupting bays.

a.1, rem: There may be a lacuna here, at the point where the central bay interrupts; see b).

a.1, CC and CCC, Degrassi: this is correct.

Translation:

(a) The theatre-stage was decorated with columns and marbles by Marcius Vitalis who spent 200,000 sesterces, and Junius Galba who spent 300,000 sesterces of public money on the work; it was dedicated when Lucius Hedius Rufus Lollianus Avitus was proconsul, [and] Caius Vibius Gallio Claudius Severus, was his legate. (b) Not usefully translatable.

Commentary:

(a) Iunius Galba. Perhaps also in 517, l. 8.

Lollianus Auitus. See 533, n. 1.

Claudius Seuerus. Also in 533, l. 4.

Photographs:

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