Description:
Fragment from the lower part of a panel of cream marble flecked with brown (w: 0.43 x h: 0.35 x d: 0.03). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Second century A.D. lapidary capitals: 0.09. 
Date:
145 A.D. (prosopography) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Theatre. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
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) 
[---]
2[·· ? ··]us ex q̣ụ[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·· L(ucio)] Hedio Rufo [LollianoAuito ·· ? ··]
[---]
2[·· ? ··]VSEX··[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ····]HEDIORVFO[················· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
us
ex
<unclear reason="damage" >
qu
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
ucio
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
Hedio
Rufo
<supplied reason="lost" >
Lolliano
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Auito
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ·· when Lucius] Hedius Rufus [Lollianus Avitus was proconsul ·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 288 Lastre)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 288 Lastre)

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