Description:
Fragment from the left-hand side of a white marble base (w: 0.23 x h: 0.19 x d: 0.47). 
Text:
Inscribed within a panel (die, surviving w: 0.14 x h: 0.17).  
Letters:
Fourth century A.D. capitals: 0.035. 
Date:
Fourth century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, East Portico.  
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) 
[---]
1exhibe[nti aequaliter]
uolupt[atum genera patris]
sui stu[diis populi suffragio]
et dec[reto ordinis]
[---]
[---]
1EXHIBE[···············]
VOLVPT[············]
SVISTV[············]
ETDEC[·············]
[---]
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
<lb n="1" />
exhibe
<supplied reason="lost" >
nti
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
aequaliter
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
uolupt
<supplied reason="lost" >
atum
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
genera
patris
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
sui
stu
<supplied reason="lost" >
diis
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
populi
suffragio
</supplied>
<lb n="4" />
et
dec
<supplied reason="lost" >
reto
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ordinis
</supplied>
<lb n="4a" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] the kinds of delightful shows, no less than his father; set up by the vote of the people and decree of the city council.

Commentary:

Presumably T. Flavius Vibianus Iunior, see 564, 595. The fragment appears to be inscribed with a text identical with the last four lines of 595.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 241 Lastre)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 241 Lastre)

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