1. Reference to Apollo (?)
- Description:
- Fragment from the lower part of a small, white marble panel (w: 0.09 x h: 0.14 x d: 0.02; no edges surviving, but there is a space after 1. 3); re-used at a later date for an inscription cut in third century capitals, of which the letters [...]TT[...] alone survive.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- Rustic capitals: line 1, 0.05; line 2, 0.04; line 3, 0.03.
- Date:
- Second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Capitolium, found in the vaults. When excavated by Bartoccini, these vaults were found to contain a large series of architectural fragments, inscriptions, and burnt debris, deposited almost certainly when the Forum area was cleared after the disastrous sack of the city by the Austuriani, c. 363-5 (see introduction). Other inscriptions in the series are: 3, 10, 11, 14, 17, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 38, 39, 42, 44, 48, 50, 51, 52, 54, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 70, 71, 73, 75, 76, 77, 82, 84, 87, 88, 92, 95, 96, 97, 99, 113, 115, 116, 117, 128, 131, 133, 137, 139, 140, 141, 143, 147, 149, 156, 160, 167, 168, 172, 175, 190.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
ecur
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Apolli
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
n
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
inp
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
(Not usefully translatable)
Commentary:
There may be a reference to the god Apollo, or part of a personal name (e.g. Apollinaris).
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXVII.15)
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