Description:
Block (w: 0.79 x h: 0.30 x d: 0.50) of grey limestone, much weathered.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: 0.12. 
Date:
First to second 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) 
[·· ? ··] ualuas dedic(auit)
[·· ? ··]VALVASDEDIC
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
ualuas
<expan>
<abbr>
dedic
</abbr>
<ex>
auit
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] he/she/they dedicated the folding doors.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XV.16)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XV.16)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1614 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1614 Leica)

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