Description:
Round-topped stele (w: 0.27 x h: 0.84 x d: 0.15) of fine grey-brown limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed within a recessed panel (die, w: 0.22 x h: 0.27), cut as a rudimentary tabella ansata; above the recess, a crescent in relief.  
Letters:
Rough capitals, probably third century: 0.02-0.025. 
Date:
Probably third century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Homs. Found with 741 beside a marabout, near the West walls (Bartoccini MS notes) 
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:
Bartoccini MS notes; Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
Dis mani-
bus sacr(um) Im-
aia Iunia Vi-
ctoria uix-
5it annos
XIV
DISMANI
BVSSACRIM
AIAIVNIAVI
CTORIAVIX
5ITANNOS
XIV
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Dis
mani
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
bus
<expan>
<abbr>
sacr
</abbr>
<ex>
um
</ex>
</expan>
Im
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
aia
Iunia
Vi
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
ctoria
uix
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
it
annos
<lb n="6" />
<num value="14" >
XIV
</num>
</ab>

Translation:

Sacred to the gods below. Imaia Junia Victoria lived for fourteen years.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XI.6)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XI.6)

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