Description:
Architrave block (w: 0.67 x h: 0.53 surviving depth 0.51) of grey limestone, with moulding top and bottom and socket for 16 cm beam at the back.  
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
One line of Neo-Punic follows the Latin text. Lapidary capitals: l.1, 0.14; l.2 0.10. The surviving text of this line reads: [. . . provided] for the work the meqim elim [ . . . ] 
Date:
81-96 A.D. (reign) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Seen by Delaporte in 1806 among the ruins of the Temple of Jupiter Dolichenus 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
later presented to King George IV, and (see 310a) now in the British Museum.  
Bibliography:
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VIII:7. 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) 
[·· ? ·· Vespasian]ị 〚f(ili)〛 〚Dọm[itian〛 ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] aug((?)) sufe[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ············]·〚F〛〚D·M[······〛·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]AVGSVFE[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Vespasian
</supplied>
<unclear reason="" >
i
</unclear>
<del>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ili
</ex>
</expan>
</del>
<del>
D
<unclear reason="" >
o
</unclear>
m
<supplied reason="lost" >
itian
</supplied>
</del>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
aug
</abbr>
<ex> </ex>
</expan>
sufe
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

2, Flamen Aug(usti) or aug(ur).

Translation:

[·· ? ··] Domitian (case unknown) son of [Vespasian·· ? ··] ? priest of Aug[ustus] ( or augur, i.e. priest), sufete [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Photo copyright British Museum)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Photo copyright British Museum)

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