49. Dedication to Herennius Etruscus

Description:
Fragment from the upper right-hand corner of a marble panel (surviving, w: 0.20 x h: 0.34).  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Third century capitals: 0.045.  
Date:
A.D. 249-251 (reign). 
Findspot:
Sabratha: Findspot unrecorded 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Sabratha 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) 
[·· ? ·· Q(uinto) Herennio Et]rusco
[Messio Decio ·· ? ·· filio ·· ? ·· Au]g(usti) d(omini) n(ostri)
[·· ? ··] [t]rib(unicia)
[pot(estate) ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·······]RVSCO
[··············· ? ·········· ? ·····]GDN
[·· ? ··][··]RIB
[······ ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
uinto
</ex>
</expan>
Herennio
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Et
</supplied>
rusco
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Messio
Decio
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
filio
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Au
</supplied>
g
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
omini
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
ostri
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
t
</supplied>
rib
</abbr>
<ex>
unicia
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="4" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
pot
</abbr>
<ex>
estate
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ·· to Quintus Herennius] Etruscus [Messius Decius[·· ? ··] son of [·· ? ··] of Augustus, our lord,[·· ? ··] holding tribunician [power for the ? time[·· ? ··]]

Commentary:

ll. 2-3 Augustus dominus noster: Trajanus Decius, Augustus 249-251.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVIII.25)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVIII.25)

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