61. Fragment from imperial titulature
- Description:
- The upper right-hand corner of a block of sandstone (w: 0.46 x h: 0.29 x d: 0.27) from a monumental inscription, formerly stuccoed.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: surviving height 0.205, originally c.0.25.
- Date:
- Unknown.
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: East Forum Temple. Found in the precinct, to which it probably belongs.
- 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>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
<unclear
reason=""
>
</orig>
g
</unclear>
<num
value="3"
>
III
</num>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
G (or C), rather than S, is the probable reading; perhaps... desig(nat-) III...
Translation:
(Perhaps) [·· ? ··] designated (consul) for the third time [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVIII.17)
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