Description:
Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.11 x h: 0.12 x d: 0.045, no edges surviving).  
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
Rustic capitals: 0.03. 
Date:
Second to 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) 
[·· ? ··]ṚON[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] P(ubliu-) Antistiu[·· ? ··]
[---]
[·· ? ··]·ON[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]PANTISTIV[·· ? ··]
[---]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
r
</unclear>
on
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
P
</abbr>
<ex>
ubliu
</ex>
</expan>
Antistiu
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2a" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] Publius Antistius [·· ? ··] (nominative or accusative)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XII.9)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XII.9)

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