100. ?Honours for a fourth century ?governor

Description:
Two fragments from a marble panel (0.40 0.36 0.015, no edges surviving).  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Fourth century capitals: 0.07- 0.08.  
Date:
Fourth century A.D. (lettering, titulature)  
Findspot:
Sabratha: Theatre 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Sabratha Museum, inv. no. 327.  
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) 
[·· ? ··] DEM[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]statuam co[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··c]ụṛạnte
[·· ? ·· Cal]purnio u(iro) p(erfectissimo)
5[praeside] [pro]u(inciae) Trip(olitanae)
[·· ? ··]DEM[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]STATVAMCO[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ····]···NTE
[·· ? ······]PVRNIOVP
5[·········][····]VTRIP
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
dem
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
statuam
co
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
c
</supplied>
<unclear reason="" >
ura
</unclear>
nte
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Cal
</supplied>
purnio
<expan>
<abbr>
u
</abbr>
<ex>
iro
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
erfectissimo
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="5" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
praeside
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
pro
</supplied>
</abbr>
<abbr>
u
</abbr>
<ex>
inciae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Trip
</abbr>
<ex>
olitanae
</ex>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] , statue (accusative case)[·· ? ··] with [·· ? ··] Calpurnius, excellent man (i.e. of equestrian status ), [governor] of the province of Tripolitania, taking charge of the erection

Commentary:

Line 4: Perhaps Fl(auius) Victor Calpurnius, praeses between 340 and 350; also in 55, line 5; 569, line 14.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVIII.20)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVIII.20)

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