Description:
Fragment, perhaps from the lower edge, of a white marble panel (w: 0.18 x h: 0.20 x d: 0.035)  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Third century A.D. capitals: 0.095. 
Date:
Third century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Theatre; found in the Portico behind it. 
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) 
[·· ? ··]Ṛ[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] Aug(usti) f(ili-) Ọ[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]·[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]AVGF·[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="damage" >
r
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ili
</ex>
</expan>
<orig >
<unclear reason="damage" >
o
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] son (or daughter) of Augustus [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVI.13)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVI.13)

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