Description:
Fragment of a panel of cream marble (w: 0.38 x h: 0.32 x d: 0.04, no edges surviving).  
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
Second to third centuries capitals: l. 2, 0.085; l. 3, 0.08. 
Date:
Second to third centuries (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Theatre. 
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) 
[·· ? ··] MẠC̣ [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]culu[··]A[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]tulis a nou[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]ueru[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]M··[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]CVLV[··]A[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]TVLISANOV[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]VERV[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
M
<unclear reason="damage" >
AC
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
culu
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
<orig >
a
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
tulis
a
nou
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
ueru
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

1, The letter before C appears to be A or R.

Translation:

(Not usefully translatable.)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XIII.35)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XIII.35)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.32)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.32)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1670 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1670 Leica)

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