Description:
The top right-hand corner of a marble panel (w: 0.37 x h: 0.40 x d: 0.02).  
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
Third century capitals: 0.06. 
Date:
Third century A.D. (lettering)  
Findspot:
Sabratha: Capitolium, found in the vaults; see note on 1
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) 
[·· ? ··] S(- - -) stop M(- - -) stop
[·· ? ··]rino
[·· ? ·· i]nuicto
[---]
[·· ? ··]S(- - -) stop M(- - -) stop
[·· ? ··]RINO
[·· ? ····]NVICTO
[---]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<abbr>
S
</abbr>
<g type="stop" > </g>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<g type="stop" > </g>
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
rino
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
nuicto
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="line" />
</ab>

Perhaps [D(eo)] s(ancto) M(ithrae); d(is) s(acrum) m(anibus) is recorded, see CIL VIII, 3828; but in the archaeological context a tombstone is improbable.

Translation:

To the sacred [god] (or) to the [god], the sun, Mithras, [·· ? ··] unconquered [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.3)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.3)

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