Description:
Part of a panel of marble, cream mottled with grey and purple (w: 0.34 x h: 0.19 x d: 0.01, no edges surviving). There are a number of other fragments, containing odd letters only, of the same distinctive marble, doubtless from the same panel.  
Text:
Inscribed on the face. 
Letters:
l. 1 (capitals), decapitated; l. 2, Rustic capitals, 0.045. 
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Street from the Arch of Trajan to the Theatre (Rel. Scav. 8.11.30) 
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) 
[·· ? ··]A[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·· t]est[a] ṃento [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]A[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ····]EST[··]·ENTO[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
A
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
t
</supplied>
est
<supplied reason="lost" >
a
</supplied>
<unclear reason="undefined" >
m
</unclear>
ento
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] in accordance with the will [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.4)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.4)

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