731. Fragmentary dedication

Description:
Block (surviving, w: 0.99 x h: 0.37 x d: 0.50) of compact grey limestone, much battered. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Approximately 0.075. 
Date:
First to fourth centuries A.D. (terminology)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, on the North wall of the Temple of Rome and Augustus. 
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) 
[·· ? ··] dedicauit Mu[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]DEDICAVITMV[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
dedicauit
Mu
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] Mu[·· ? ··] dedicated [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

Almost certainly to be identified with Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VIII:22676 and perhaps with R. Cagnat et A. Merlin, Inscriptions latines d'Afrique (Tripolitaine, Tunisie, Maroc), Paris, 1923, I(b).

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVII.8)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVII.8)

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