Description:
Part of a marble panel (w: 0.52 x h: 0.41 x d: 0.03, no edges surviving).  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Lettering: ll. 1-2, 4 (Second to third century capitals), 0.045; l. 3 (lapidary capitals), 0.07. There is a gap between ll. 2 and 3. 
Date:
Second to third centuries (lettering.)  
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) 
[·· ? ·· qua]estor [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·· i]ụnctus est ex tesṭ[amento ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] P̣ol(lia tribu) Quiet[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]ae augur[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ······]ESTOR[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ····]·NCTVSESTEXTES·[········· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]·OLQVIET[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]AEAVGVR[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
qua
</supplied>
estor
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
u
</unclear>
nctus
est
ex
tes
<unclear reason="damage" >
t
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
amento
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<unclear reason="damage" >
P
</unclear>
ol
</abbr>
<ex>
lia tribu
</ex>
</expan>
Quiet
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
ae
augur
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] quaestor [·· ? ··] ? joined (to something or someone) in accordance with the will [·· ? ··] Quietus, of the Roman voting tribe Pollia, [·· ? ··] augur [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1672 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1672 Leica)

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