Description:
Three blocks of compact grey limestone, possibly from the same inscription. a) w: 0.77 x h: 0.50 x d: 0.53. b) and c) Two adjacent blocks: b) w: 0.70 x h: 0.49 x d: 0.51; c) w: 0.84 x h: 0.50 x d: 0.54 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
a) Lapidary capitals: from top of block, l. 1, 0.09-0.19; to bottom, 0.50. b) Lapidary capitals 0.11; c) Lapidary capitals: from top of block, l. 1, 0.15-0.26; to bottom, 0.50. 
Date:
First to second centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
a) and c) are on the sea shore, West of the Temple of Neptune, b) is lost. 
Bibliography:
P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, 134 R. Cagnat et A. Merlin, Inscriptions latines d'Afrique (Tripolitaine, Tunisie, Maroc), Paris, 1923, I (l), block c) only. 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

(Block a))

[·· ? ·· L]epcitani [·· ? ··]
b

(Blocks b) and c))

T(ito) Caesernio [·· ? ··]
a

(Block a))

[·· ? ····]EPCITANI[·· ? ··]
b

(Blocks b) and c))

TCAESERNIO[·· ? ··]
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<note>
Block a)
</note>
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
L
</supplied>
epcitani
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<note>
Blocks b) and c)
</note>
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
T
</abbr>
<ex>
ito
</ex>
</expan>
Caesernio
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

(a) [·· ? ··] the Lepcitanians [·· ? ··]

(b. and c) To Titus Caesernius [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.13)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.13)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.14)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.14)

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