Description:
Part of a panel of cream marble (w: 0.23 x h: 0.21 x d: 0.25, no edges surviving). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: l. 1, 0.07; ll. 2-3, 0.055. 
Date:
A.D. 117-138 (reign)  
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) 
[Imp(erator) Caes(ar) diui Trai]ani Pa[rthici filius diui Neruae nep(os)]
[Traian]us Had[rianus Aug(ustus) pont(ifex) max(imus)]
[trib(unicia)] pot(estate) [·· ? ··]
[··············]ANIPA[··············]
[·······]VSHAD[················]
[·····]POT[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
erator
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
ar
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
diui
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Trai
</supplied>
ani
Pa
<supplied reason="lost" >
rthici
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
filius
diui
Neruae
<expan>
<abbr>
nep
</abbr>
<ex>
os
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Traian
</supplied>
us
Had
<supplied reason="lost" >
rianus
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
ustus
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
ifex
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
imus
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
unicia
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
pot
</abbr>
<ex>
estate
</ex>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[Emperor Caesar] Trajan Hadrian [Augustus, son of the deified] Trajan, victor in Parthia, [grandson of] deified Nerva, [chief priest, holding tribunician ] power for the ? time (at least twice)[·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1670 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1670 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 292 Lastre)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 292 Lastre)

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