869. Fragmentary building inscription

Description:
Block of yellow limestone (w: 0.70 x h: 0.31 x d: 0.14), the right-hand edge of which appears to have been incorporated in a later building.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Capitals: 0.025. 
Date:
No indication  
Findspot:
Eastern Djebel: From Ain Wif (map ref. Q 643965 see 868), from the ruins of a bath-house beside the spring. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
 
Bibliography:
Goodchild and Ward Perkins, Journal of Roman Studies, XXXIX: 86-8, pi. XI, 2: L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.), 1950:127. 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) 
M(arcus) Coeli[us ·· c. 16··]-
ninus [·· c. 12··]
balneum u[etustate corrup]-
tum restituendum [curauit]
5eidem assam cellam a so[lo]
fecit et cylisterium institu-
it curante Iunio Sucesso (sic)
c(enturione) principe
MCOELI[····· c. 16··]
NINVS[·· c. 12··]
BALNEVMV[················]
TVMRESTITVENDVM[········]
5EIDEMASSAMCELLAMASO[···]
FECITETCYLISTERIVMINSTITV
ITCVRANTEIVNIOSVCESSO(sic)
CPRINCIPE
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arcus
</ex>
</expan>
Coeli
<supplied reason="lost" >
us
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="16" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
ninus
<gap reason="lost" extent="12" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<lb n="3" />
balneum
u
<supplied reason="lost" >
etustate
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
corrup
</supplied>
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
tum
restituendum
<supplied reason="lost" >
curauit
</supplied>
<lb n="5" />
eidem
assam
cellam
a
so
<supplied reason="lost" >
lo
</supplied>
<lb n="6" />
fecit
et
cylisterium
institu
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
it
curante
Iunio
Sucesso
<note>
sic
</note>
<lb n="8" />
<expan>
<abbr>
c
</abbr>
<ex>
enturione
</ex>
</expan>
principe
</ab>

2, -ninus: Or Ninus; but the ivy leaf at the beginning of the line is probably decorative rather than a stop.

Translation:

Marcus Coelius [·· ? ··]ninus( or Ninus) [·· ? ··] saw to the restoration of the bath, which was in bad condition as a result of its age. He also built the sweating-chamber from its foundations and instituted an exercise-room,. Junius Successus, centurion of the principes, was in charge (of the work).

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 402)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 402)

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