Description:
Rectangular base (w: 0.52 x h: 0.96 x d: 0.52) of rather coarse grey limestone.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.28 x h: 0.70).  
Letters:
Irregular capitals with Rustic forms (probably third century A.D.): av. 0.03-0.035. 
Date:
Probably third century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Regio V, ins. 6, opposite the South East entrance to the Market. 
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) 
---
8et Flau[iu]s [Ca]-
pito statuas
10quatuor [ - - - ]
(denarios) VIII ad[iec]tis
amplius d[e]
[s]uo (denariis) ↀ V he-
r[e]des posu-
15erunt
---
8ETFLAV[···]S[···]
PITOSTATVAS
10QVATVOR[ - - - ]
denarius VIIIAD[····]TIS
AMPLIVSD[··]
[··]VO denarius ↀVHE
R[··]DESPOSV
15ERVNT
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<gap reason="illegible" extent="7" unit="line" />
<lb n="8" />
et
Flau
<supplied reason="lost" >
iu
</supplied>
s
<supplied reason="lost" >
Ca
</supplied>
<lb n="9" type="worddiv" />
pito
statuas
<lb n="10" />
quatuor
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" extentmax="3" />
<lb n="11" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<am>
<g type="denarius" > </g>
</am>
</abbr>
<ex>
denarios
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="8000" >
VIII
</num>
ad
<supplied reason="lost" >
iec
</supplied>
tis
<lb n="12" />
amplius
d
<supplied reason="lost" >
e
</supplied>
<lb n="13" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
s
</supplied>
uo
<expan>
<abbr>
<am>
<g type="denarius" > </g>
</am>
</abbr>
<ex>
denariis
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="5000" >
ↀ V
</num>
he
<lb n="14" type="worddiv" />
r
<supplied reason="lost" >
e
</supplied>
des
posu
<lb n="15" type="worddiv" />
erunt
</ab>

11, i.e. denarios octo milia.

13, i.e. denariis mille quinque.

Translation:

[·· ? ··] and Flavius Capito, his heirs, set up four statues at a cost of eight thousand denarii, adding one thousand five hundred denarii of their own.

Commentary:

ll. 8-9. Flauius Capito. Perhaps also in 701.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 317)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 317)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XI.5)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XI.5)

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