Description:
Fragmentary marble panel (w: 0.70 x h: 0.12).  
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: 0.09. 
Date:
A.D. 138-c.141 (after accession, before death of Faustina)  
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) 
Faustinae Aug(ustae)
Imp(eratoris) [An]tọṇ [ini Pii]
[coniugi]
FAVSTINAEAVG
IMP[···]T··[········]
[········]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Faustinae
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
ustae
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratoris
</ex>
</expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
An
</supplied>
t
<unclear reason="damage" >
on
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ini
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Pii
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
coniugi
</supplied>
</ab>

Translation:

To Faustina Augusta, [wife] of Emperor Antoninus [Pius]

Commentary:

Before the death of Faustina in 140/1.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 219)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 219)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 219)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 219)

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