490. Fragmentary ?building inscription

Description:
Five damaged architrave blocks of compact grey limestone with a uniform moulding. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: 0.27. 
Date:
First to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Above Punic Market (Reg. V, ins. 4-5), from the monumental inscription on the exterior of the octagonal limestone market building. 
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
[·· ? ··] X[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··]E Ṛ[·· ? ··]
c
[·· ? ··] C[·· ? ··]
d
[·· ? ··]AE[·· ? ··]
e
[·· ? ··]ḌỊ[·· ? ··]
a
[·· ? ··]X[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··]E ·[·· ? ··]
c
[·· ? ··]C[·· ? ··]
d
[·· ? ··]AE[·· ? ··]
e
[·· ? ··]··[·· ? ··]
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
x
</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 >
e
<unclear reason="" >
r
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="c" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
c
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="d" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
ae
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="e" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
di
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>

b, Or [·· ? ··]e p[·· ? ··]

Translation:

(Not usefully translatable.)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 147)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 147)

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