Description:
Fragment of a panel of cream marble (w: 0.20 x h: 0.23 x d: 0.025, no edges surviving).  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Second century A.D. capitals: l.1, 0.05; l.3, 0.042; l.4, 0.029. 
Date:
Second century A.D. (Lettering)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus. From the Temple of Magna Mater. 
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) 
[·· ? ··]ON[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]Ṛ [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]co(n-)s(ul-) c[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·· leg(at-) p]ro pr(aetore) di[ui ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]ON[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]·[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]COSC[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ········]ROPRDI[····· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
on
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="damage" >
r
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ul
</ex>
</expan>
c
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
leg
</abbr>
<ex>
at
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
p
</supplied>
ro
<expan>
<abbr>
pr
</abbr>
<ex>
aetore
</ex>
</expan>
di
<supplied reason="lost" >
ui
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··](l.3) consul [·· ? ··] propraetorian [legate] of the deified [·· ? ··] (case unknown)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXX.15)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXX.15)

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