Description:
Fragments of a marble architrave with egg-and-dart moulding, found dispersed, and now recomposed to give three fragments of text. a+b) w: 1.70 x h: 0.60 c) w: 0.40 x h: 0.08  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: 0.16. 
Date:
First to second centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, beside the Severan Temple. 
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; including revisions from J. M. Reynolds, 'Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania: A Supplement', Proceedings of the British School at Rome 23 (1955), 124-147 
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
a+b
[·· ? ··]io a parenti[bus ·· ? ··]
c
[·· ? ··]onco[·· ? ··]
a+b
[·· ? ··]IOAPARENTI[······ ? ··]
c
[·· ? ··]ONCO[·· ? ··]
<div type="textpart" n="a+b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
io
a
parenti
<supplied reason="lost" >
bus
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="c" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
onco
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>

c.1, Perhaps [·· ? ··c]onco[rdia·· ? ··]

Translation:

a and b. [·· ? ··] by his parents [·· ? ··]

c. (not translatable though possiby from concordia, concord.)

Commentary:

The three fragments have been re-examined since 1951. The two fragments a and b should be taken together: the stones do not make an exact juncture, but the graining of the marble shows that they did in fact adjoin.

a+b) l. 1. Presumably a reference to work undertaken at the expense of Severus and Julia Domna but finished by Caracalla, see also 427, 428 from the Severan basilica. A reconstruction might be sought on the lines of templum et substructio a parentibus coepta.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVI.28)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVI.28)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVI.29)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVI.29)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 481)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 481)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 480)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 480)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 479)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 479)

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