Description:
Broken block (surviving width w: 0.62 x h: 0.50 x d: 0.50) of grey limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
First century A.D. capitals from top of block, l. 1, 0.45-0.18; l. 2, 0.21-0.31; to bottom, 0.19.  
Date:
First century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, near the sea-wall, beside 770
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, 133 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) 
[·· ? ·· patr]onus
[·· ? ··]I
[·· ? ·······]ONVS
[·· ? ··]I
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
patr
</supplied>
onus
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
i
</orig>
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] patron (nominative case) [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.31)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.31)

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