Description:
Fragment from the lower left-hand corner of a marble panel (w: 0.43 x h: 0.34).  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Late form of Rustic capitals: 0.075.  
Date:
Third century A.D. (lettering)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus 
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) 
[---]
1 [·· c. 10··]ORV[·· ? ··]
[ - - - ]ỊṾ[···]ẠSẸ
iusti[tia ·· ? ··]
labore et indus[tria]
5Lepcima[gnenses ·· ? ··]
[---]
1[·· c. 10··]ORV[·· ? ··]
[ - - - ]··[···]·S·
IVSTI[······ ? ··]
LABOREETINDVS[·····]
5LEPCIMA[·········· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="10" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<orig >
oru
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" extentmax="2" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
iu
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
a
</unclear>
s
<unclear reason="" >
e
</unclear>
</orig>
<lb n="3" />
iusti
<supplied reason="lost" >
tia
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
labore
et
indus
<supplied reason="lost" >
tria
</supplied>
<lb n="5" />
Lepcima
<supplied reason="lost" >
gnenses
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] (l.3) ? in justice [·· ? ··] with labour and industry [·· ? ··] the Lepcimagnensians [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.25)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.X.25)

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