31. ?Dedication, possibly to Commodus
- Description:
- Fragment of a marble panel (surviving w: 0.08 x h: 0.18, no edges).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
- Second to third century capitals: line 1 (decapitated); line 2, 0.08.
- Date:
- A.D. 180-192 (reign; Commodus? See commentary note)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Findspot unrecorded
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Sabratha Museum.
- 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"
/>
<orig
>
g
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
a
<unclear
reason=""
>
</orig>
m
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
Not usefully translateable
Commentary:
l. 1. Recut in an erased line. The style of lettering suggests that the inscription may have referred to Commodus.
- Photographs:
- none.
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