45. Erased ?dedication to ?Severus Alexander
- Description:
- Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.19 x h: 0.125 x d: 0.03, no edges surviving).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals (?): approx. 0.08.
- Date:
- A.D. 222-235 (style of erasure).
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: The East Forum Temple: found in the precinct of the temple.
- 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"
/>
<del>
</del>
<gap
reason="illegible"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<del>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
at
</ex>
<expan>
</del>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
atriae
</ex>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
(The erased name or title of an emperor)[·· ? ··]father of the country[·· ? ··](case unknown)
Commentary:
The distinctive form of erasure by means of continuous horizontal strokes, as in 41, 43 and 44, suggests Severus Alexander.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXXVII.18)
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