Description:
Broken block (w: 0.95 x h: 0.21 x d: 0.23) of grey limestone, badly weathered. 
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: from top of block, l. 1 (decapitated) 0.0750.24. 
Date:
A.D. 81-96? (reign) 
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) 
[·· ? ·· Vespa]ṣian 〚f(ili-)〛 〚Do[mitian〛 ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ········]·IAN〚F〛〚DO[·······〛·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Vespa
</supplied>
<unclear reason="" >
s
</unclear>
ian
<del>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ili
</ex>
</expan>
</del>
<del>
Do
<supplied reason="lost" >
mitian
</supplied>
</del>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] Domitian (case unknown), son of Vespasian [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVII.26)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVII.26)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XV.13)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XV.13)

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