Description:
Fragment (w: 0.155 x h: 0.12 x d: 0.02), from the lower part of a panel of white marble.  
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
Roughly incised third to fourth centuries capitals: l. 1, 0.035; l. 2, 0.05; l. 3, 0.02. Traces of red paint in the letters, and of red-painted guide lines.  
Date:
Third to fourth centuries 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) 
[---]
1 [·· ? ··] VAṚIM [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] patriạ[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·· admi]nistratis [·· ? ··]
[---]
1[·· ? ··]VA·IM[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]PATRI·[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·······]NISTRATIS[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="line" />
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
VA
<unclear reason="undefined" >
R
</unclear>
IM
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
patri
<unclear reason="damage" >
a
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
admi
</supplied>
nistratis
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] (l.2 ) native country (nominative, accusative or ablative) [·· ? ··] to/by/with [·· ? ··] administered [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIII.18)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIII.18)

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