Description:
Fragment of a marble base (w: 0.17 x h: 0.23, no edges surviving).  
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
Fourth century A.D. capitals: 0.035. 
Date:
Fourth century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Wadi Lebdah (Rel. Scav.7.8.32) 
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) 
[---]
1 [·· ? ··]per tḥ[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]dine su[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]ịum column[·· ? ··]
5 [·· ? ··] operis pṛ[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]tu[·· ? ··]
[---]
1[·· ? ··]PERT·[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]DINESV[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]·VMCOLVMN[·· ? ··]
5[·· ? ··]OPERISP·[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]TV[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="line" />
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
per
t
<unclear reason="damage" >
h
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
dine
su
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
i
</unclear>
um
column
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
operis
p
<unclear reason="damage" >
r
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="6" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
tu
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] (l.3 column[s (case and number unknown)·· ? ··] of the work [·· ? ··])

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.6)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.6)

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