Description:
Rectangular base (w: 0.51 x h: 0.77 x d: 0.74, truncated at top). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a recessed panel (die, w: 0.33 x h: 0.77; height incomplete).  
Letters:
Capitals, with some Rustic forms: 0.04-0.05. 
Date:
Second century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in the street at the South angle of the Curia. 
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) 
C(aio) Aelio Pa[p(iria tribu)]
Crescent[i]
ex testam[en]-
to Aeliae
5Myridis
P(ublius) Corneli[u]s
Balbus
her(es) fecit
CAELIOPA[·············]
CRESCENT[··]
EXTESTAM[···]
TOAELIAE
5MYRIDIS
PCORNELI[··]S
BALBVS
HERFECIT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
aio
</ex>
</expan>
Aelio
<expan>
<abbr>
Pa
<supplied reason="lost" >
p
</supplied>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<ex>
iria tribu
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
Crescent
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
ex
testam
<supplied reason="lost" >
en
</supplied>
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
to
Aeliae
<lb n="5" />
Myridis
<lb n="6" />
<expan>
<abbr>
P
</abbr>
<ex>
ublius
</ex>
</expan>
Corneli
<supplied reason="lost" >
u
</supplied>
s
<lb n="7" />
Balbus
<lb n="8" />
<expan>
<abbr>
her
</abbr>
<ex>
es
</ex>
</expan>
fecit
</ab>

1, Or Pal(atina tribu).

Translation:

To Caius Aelius Crescens, of the Roman voting tribe Papiria, in accordance with the will of Aelia Myris; Publius Cornelius Balbus, heir, had this made.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 940)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 940)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1549 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1549 Leica)

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