Description:
Impression left by a fragment of a lost marble panel (approx. w: 1.98 x h: 0.83, when excavated). With a moulded border top and bottom, reused in the late fourth century paving at the west end of the North Forum Portico; see also 23, 41, 43, 95.  
Text:
Originally inscribed on marble. Read by Bartoccini when first excavated; now much deteriorated.  
Letters:
Capitals: line 1, 0.135; line 2, 0.13; line 3, 0.125; line 4, 0.09. 
Date:
A.D. 183-184 (titulature) 
Findspot:
Sabratha: The W end of the North Forum Portico 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Bartoccini, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, Roma (Ministero dell'Africa Italiana), vol. I, 1950 I:53. 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) 
[Imp(eratori) Caesari di]ui Ma[rci] Antonini Pii f[ilio diui Pii nep(oti)]
[diui Hadriani] [p]ron(epoti) [di]ui Ṭ[rai]ani Par[thic]i m[a]x̣(imi) [abn(epoti) diui Neruae]
[adn(epoti) M(arco) Aurelio Com]modo [Anton]i[n]o Aug(usto) Pio [Sarm]ati[co Germanico max(imo)]
[pont(ifici) max(imo) trib(unicia) pot(estate) [ - - - ]] [im]p(eratori) VI co(n)s(uli) IIII [p(atri) p(atriae) ·· ? ··]
[···············]VIMA[····]ANTONINIPIIF[··············]
[·····][··]RON[···]VI·[····]ANIPAR[·····]IM[··]·[····]
[········]MODO[······]I[··]OAVGPIO[·····]ATI[·············]
[·····][···]PVICOSIIII[···· ? ··]
( The text given is Bartoccini's. The surviving letters were read in 1948 as follows: ) [·· ? ····]NTONINI·II[········ ? ··]
[·· ? ···········]IANIPAR[··]H[···]I·B[········· ? ··]
[·· ? ··········]OAVG[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··][···]PVICOSIIII[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Caesari
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
di
</supplied>
ui
Ma
<supplied reason="lost" >
rci
</supplied>
Antonini
Pii
f
<supplied reason="lost" >
ilio
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
diui
Pii
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
nep
</abbr>
<ex>
oti
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
diui
Hadriani
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
p
</supplied>
ron
</abbr>
<ex>
epoti
</ex>
</expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
di
</supplied>
ui
<unclear reason="" >
T
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
rai
</supplied>
ani
Par
<supplied reason="lost" >
thic
</supplied>
i
<expan>
<abbr>
m
<supplied reason="lost" >
a
</supplied>
<unclear reason="" >
x
</unclear>
</abbr>
<ex>
imi
</ex>
</expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
abn
</abbr>
<ex>
epoti
</ex>
</expan>
diui
Neruae
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
adn
</abbr>
<ex>
epoti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arco
</ex>
</expan>
Aurelio
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Com
</supplied>
modo
<supplied reason="lost" >
Anton
</supplied>
i
<supplied reason="lost" >
n
</supplied>
o
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
Pio
<supplied reason="lost" >
Sarm
</supplied>
ati
<supplied reason="lost" >
co
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Germanico
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
imo
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<lb n="4" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
ifici
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
imo
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
unicia
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
pot
</abbr>
<ex>
estate
</ex>
</expan>
<num >
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" extentmax="4" />
</num>
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
im
</supplied>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="6" >
VI
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
uli
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="4" >
IIII
</num>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atri
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atriae
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
<ab>
<note>
The text given is Bartoccini's. The surviving letters were read in 1948 as follows:
</note>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
A
</supplied>
ntonini
<unclear reason="" >
P
</unclear>
ii
<supplied reason="lost" >
filio
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
diui
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Tra
</supplied>
iani
Par
<supplied reason="lost" >
t
</supplied>
h
<supplied reason="lost" >
ic
</supplied>
i
<unclear reason="" >
a
</unclear>
b
<supplied reason="lost" >
nepoti
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Antonin
</supplied>
o
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
im
</supplied>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="6" >
VI
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
uli
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="4" >
IIII
</num>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Reconstructed Text

( The text given is Bartoccini's. The surviving letters were read in 1948 as follows: ) [·· ? ··A]ntonini P̣ii [filio·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··diui Tra]iani Par[t]h[ic]i ạb[nepoti·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··Antonin]o Aug(usto)[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··][im]p(eratori) VI co(n)s(uli) IIII [·· ? ··]

So Bartoccini; but see note above, the more usual form.

l. 4. Commodus was cos. IV from 1 Jan. 183; imp. VI in 183 and imp. VII in 184.

Translation:

[To Emperor Caesar, son of] deified Marcus Antonius Pius, [grandson of deified Pius], great-grandson [of deified Hadrian,great-great-grandson] of deified Trajan, greatest victor in Parthia, [great-great-great-grandson of deified Nerva, Marcus Aurelius] Commodus [Antoninus] Augustus, Pius, [victor in] Sarmatia, [greatest victor in Germany, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the . . . time, acclaimed victor] six times, consul for the fourth time, [father of the country] [·· ? ··]

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