Description:
Two fragments of a panel of marble, cream mottled with grey and purple. a) w: 0.13 x h: 0.15 x d: 0.01; left-hand edge. b) w: 0.105 x h: 0.06 x d: 0.01; no edges surviving. 
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving faces. 
Letters:
Third century capitals: 0.03. 
Date:
Third century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum. 
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) 
a
[·· ? ··]G[·· ? ··]
Gran[i ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]Ị F[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··]RIO[·· ? ··]
a
[·· ? ··]G[·· ? ··]
GRAN[···· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]·F[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··]RIO[·· ? ··]
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
g
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
Gran
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
i
</unclear>
</orig>
<orig >
f
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
rio
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

(a) [·· ? ··] Gran[i·· ? ··] (case unknown)

(b) Not usefully translatable.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.4)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.4)

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