Description:
Fragment from the lower part of a marble panel (w: 0.27 x h: 0.26 x d: 0.015). 
Text:
Inscribed within a moulded border. 
Letters:
Rustic capitals: 0.075. 
Date:
Second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum 
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) 
[·· ? ·· tri]buno [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·· leg(ionis)] XIII Gem(inae) [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] publice patr[ono ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ······]BVNO[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ······]XIIIGEM[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]PVBLICEPATR[······ ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
tri
</supplied>
buno
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
leg
</abbr>
<ex>
ionis
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<num value="13" >
XIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
Gem
</abbr>
<ex>
inae
</ex>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
publice
patr
<supplied reason="lost" >
ono
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

To [·· ? ··] tribune [·· ? ··] of Legion thirteen Gemina [·· ? ··] publicly [to] their patron [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

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

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