Description:
Two fragments from the upper part of a marble panel (w: 0.26 x h: 0.15 x d: 0.03 and w: 0.20 x h: 0.11 x d: 0.03).  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: approx. 0.18. 
Date:
Second century A.D. (reign) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Theatre. 
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.  
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
[Im]p(erator-) C[aes(ar-)(?)] Ael[i·· ? ··]
[···]PC[·······(?)]AEL[···· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Im
</supplied>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
erator
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
C
<supplied reason="lost" >
aes
</supplied>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
<ex>
ar
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
Ael
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[Em]peror C[aesar Titus (or Lucius)] Aelius [·· ? ··] (case not known)

Commentary:

Either Antoninus Pius or Commodus.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVI.12)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVI.12)

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