60. Fragment from imperial titulature
- Description:
- Parts of three sandstone blocks, once stuccoed, from a monumental inscription. a) Two blocks, together, w: 1.09 x h: 0.39 x d: 0.35. b) One block, w: 0.92 x h: 0.47 x d: 0.40.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: 0.19.
- Date:
- Unknown.
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Reg. IV, ins. 2, or beside it, re-used, and now loose nearby.
- 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)
ab
ab
<div
type="textpart"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
unica
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
pot
</supplied>
es
<unclear
reason=""
>
</abbr>
t
</unclear>
<ex>
</expan>
ate
</ex>
<num
value="6"
>
VI
</num>
im
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
perator
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
<unclear
reason=""
>
i
</unclear>
s mvqv
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<div
type="textpart"
n="b"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="line"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
es
<unclear
reason=""
>
t
</unclear>
om
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
a. [·· ? ··] holding [tribunician] power for the sixth time, acclaimed victor [·· ? ··] b. (Not usefully translatable.)
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.IV.9)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.III.13)
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