Description:
Fragment of a marble pilaster , re-used. 
Text:
Inscribed on the reverse face (w: 0.37 x h: 0.21 x d: 0.05, lower edge). 
Letters:
Fourth century A.D. capitals . 0.045.  
Date:
Fourth century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded. 
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) 
[·· ? ··] MẠṾṬỊ magni[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]omitibus CIVEAT [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]M····MAGNI[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]OMITIBVSCIVEAT[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
m
<unclear reason="damage" >
auti
</unclear>
</orig>
magni
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
omitibus
<orig >
ciueat
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] ?of a great [·· ? ··] ? to (or by) ?companions [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.34)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.34)

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