Description:
Three fragments of coarse-grained brown limestone, all probably from the same panel or base, inscribed within a moulded tabella ansata. a) w: 0.23 x h: 0.17 x d: 0.09 . Moulding survives at the left-hand edge and apparently includes the angle of the lower juncture of the ansa with the panel. b) w: 0.27 x h: 0.20 x d: 0.055 . No edges. c) w: 0.18 x h: 0.18 x d: 0.055 . Moulding survives below the lettering, at an acute angle to it; the fragment appears to be from the lower part of the right ansa, into which the lettering has encroached. 
Text:
Inscribed within tabella ansata. Inscribed surface: a) w: 0.23 x h: 0.17; b) w: 0.27 x h: 0.12; c) w: 0.18 x h: 0.18. 
Letters:
Rustic capitals, probably third century: 0.065-0.07. 
Date:
Probably third century (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Now in one of the tabernae of the East Portico of the Forum Severianum. 
Bibliography:
Not previously published. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds, 'Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania: A Supplement', Proceedings of the British School at Rome 23 (1955), 124-147, no. S.7. 
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) 
a
sp̣ạ[·· ? ··]
Lẹp̣c̣[itan(?)]
b
[·· ? ··]ṾẠ[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]ọri patriae mị[·· ? ··]
c
[·· ? ··] singulari[·· ? ··]
a
S··[·· ? ··]
L···[·····(?)]
b
[·· ? ··]··[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]·RIPATRIAEM·[·· ? ··]
c
[·· ? ··]SINGVLARI[·· ? ··]
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
s
<unclear reason="damage" >
pa
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
L
<unclear reason="damage" >
epc
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
itan
</supplied>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="damage" >
VA
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
o
</unclear>
ri
patriae
m
<unclear reason="damage" >
i
</unclear>
<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" />
singulari
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

(a) [·· ? ··] the people of Lepcis case unknown [·· ? ··]

(b) [·· ? ··]?lover of his/her country [·· ? ··]

(c) [·· ? ··]singular (?remarkable: case and number unknown) [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

b.2: Perhaps amat]ori patriae, see also 95, 275, 347, 567, 603, and Neo-Punic 32 (= 318).

Photographs:
none.

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