Description:
Block (measurable length, w: 1.15 x h: 0.54 x d: 0.51) terminating at one end in a triangle.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: 0.19. 
Date:
First to second centuries A.D. (lettering)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Wadi Lebdah. Seen by Aurigemma in 1912, half buried in the sand beside the caravan route from Homs to the oasis of Sahel el-Ahàmed, as it passes the hill Sidi Barcu. Not seen again. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1912) 
Bibliography:
Aurigemma, Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940 II:90ff., fig. 8. 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:
Previous publications 
Ḷ(ucius) Iunius Afer[·· ? ··]
·IVNIVSAFER[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<unclear reason="" >
L
</unclear>
</abbr>
<ex>
ucius
</ex>
</expan>
Iunius
Afer
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

Lucius Junius Afer [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

l. 1. L. Iunius Afer. Perhaps also in 601, l. 18.

Photographs:
none.

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