Description:
Marble panel (w: 0.96 x h: 0.40 x d: 0.02).  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Third century A.D. capitals, mixed lapidary and Rustic forms: l. 1, 0.10; l. 2. 0.095; 1. 3, 0.08. 
Date:
Third century A.D. (lettering)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Found in the 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) 
Libero Patri
Genio coloniae
Lepcitani publice
LIBEROPATRI
GENIOCOLONIAE
LEPCITANIPVBLICE
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Libero
Patri
<lb n="2" />
Genio
coloniae
<lb n="3" />
Lepcitani
publice
</ab>

Translation:

To Liber Pater, genius of the colony, the Lepcitanians publicly.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 898 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 898 Leica)

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