Description:
Three fragments of a marble panel. a). w: 0.25 x h: 0.225 x d: 0.035 b). w: 0.215 x h: 0.13 x d: 0.037 c). w: 0.73 x h: 0.68 x d: 0.03-0.04 At the left-hand end of ll. 1 and 2, there are two larger circles, the lower of which contains the inscribed figure of a dog; and between ll.2 and 3 there are the inscribed figures of an ostrich and of a horse with a tall plume.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face, each letter within an inscribed circle. 
Letters:
0.03 
Date:
No indication  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Theatre; Found in the rear Portico, in 1951. 
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) 
a
[·· ? ··]LLA[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··]ART[·· ? ··]
c
T[e]ner[e]
q[u]eris
[n]escis
a
[·· ? ··]LLA[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··]ART[·· ? ··]
c
T[··]NER[··]
Q[··]ERIS
[··]ESCIS
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
lla
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
art
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="c" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
T
<supplied reason="lost" >
e
</supplied>
ner
<supplied reason="lost" >
e
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
q
<supplied reason="lost" >
u
</supplied>
eris
<lb n="3" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
n
</supplied>
escis
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

(a. and b)Not usefully translatable.

(c) You cannot win a point; you do not know how to play.

Commentary:

( Probably a tabula lusoria; the text is reconstructed by Caputo as follows: [Nulla[m] t[e]ner[e] [p]art[em] q[u]eris [ludere n]escis )

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 2154 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 2154 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 2152 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 2152 Leica)

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