Description:
Rectangular base (w: 0.68 x h: 0.32 x d: 0.56) of grey limestone. There is a formal spray roughly incised at either end of l.1.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face, within a narrow moulded border. 
Letters:
Late form of Rustic capitals, 0.08-0.10 
Date:
Third to fourth century (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Decumanus maximus; Regio III, ins.6, beside the . 
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) 
Bonis bene
quia mali non sunt
BONISBENE
QVIAMALINONSVNT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Bonis
bene
<lb n="2" />
quia
mali
non
sunt
</ab>

Translation:

For the good (?may) it be well, since they are not bad.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 580)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 580)

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