Description:
Parts of a marble panel reconstructed from fragments (w: 1.92 x h: 0.54 x d: 0.02). 
Text:
Inscribed within an incised tabella ansata, with simple rosettes within the ansae.  
Letters:
Second century A.D. capitals: ll. 1-2, 0.075; l. 3, 0.08; l. 4, 0.065. 
Date:
145 A.D. (prosopography) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Theatre, from the fountain against the reverse face of the scaena. 
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) 
Lacus pec[unia pub[li]ca ampliatus et m[armori]-
bus et columnis itemque Cu[p]idinibus [exorna]-
tus dedicatus est L(ucio) Ḥ[edio Rufo Lolliano Auito]
proco(n)s(ule) C(aio) Vibio Ga[ll]ịọ[ne Claudio Seuer]o leg(ato) pr[(o) pr(aetore)]
LACVSPEC[·····PVB[···]CAAMPLIATVSETM[·······]
BVSETCOLVMNISITEMQVECV[··]IDINIBVS[·······]
TVSDEDICATVSESTL·[·························]
PROCOSCVIBIOGA[···]··[·················]OLEGPR[·····]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Lacus
pec
<supplied reason="lost" >
unia
</supplied>
pub
<supplied reason="lost" >
li
</supplied>
ca
ampliatus
et
m
<supplied reason="lost" >
armori
</supplied>
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
bus
et
columnis
itemque
Cu
<supplied reason="lost" >
p
</supplied>
idinibus
<supplied reason="lost" >
exorna
</supplied>
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
tus
dedicatus
est
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
ucio
</ex>
</expan>
<unclear reason="damage" >
H
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
edio
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Rufo
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Lolliano
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Auito
</supplied>
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
proco
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ule
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
aio
</ex>
</expan>
Vibio
Ga
<supplied reason="lost" >
ll
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
io
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ne
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Claudio
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Seuer
</supplied>
o
<expan>
<abbr>
leg
</abbr>
<ex>
ato
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
pr
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<ex>
o
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
pr
</abbr>
<ex>
aetore
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
</ab>

Translation:

The pool, increased in size at public expense and [decorated] with marbles and columns and also Cupids, was dedicated when Lucius [Hedius Rufus Lollianus Avitus] was proconsul [and] Caius Vibius Gallio Claudius Severus, legate with propraetorian powers.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXX.13)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXX.13)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1281 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1281 Leica)

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