Description:
Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.23 x h: 0.23 x d: 0.045, no edges surviving). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Second to third centuries A.D. capitals: 0.075. 
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Port Area 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum. 
Bibliography:
Relazioni Scavi (weekly reports filed in the Archives of the Superintendency of Antiquities, Tripoli), 12.9.28 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) 
[·· ? ··] [pu]bl(ic-) et pecu[nia ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]o t[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··][···]BLETPECV[······ ? ··]
[·· ? ··]OT[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
pu
</supplied>
bl
</abbr>
<ex>
ic
</ex>
</expan>
et
pecu
<supplied reason="lost" >
nia
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
o
t
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

(a) [·· ? ··] publicly and with money [·· ? ··] (b)[·· ? ··] from public money [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.16)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.16)

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