Description:
Block (w: 1.25 x h: 0.43 x d: 0.50) of compact grey limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: 0.185. 
Date:
First to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, behind the Temple of Liber Pater, west of the Byzantine Wall, near the sea-shore. 
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) 
[·· ? ··] co(n-)s(ul-) V [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]COSV[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ul
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="5" >
V
</num>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] consul for the fifth time [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVI.18)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVI.18)

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