Description:
Fragment, probably from the lower edge, of a marble panel (w: 0.25 x h: 0.265).  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Second to third centuriy capitals: line 1, 0.075; line 2, 0.07; line 3, 0.055.  
Date:
Second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering). 
Findspot:
Sabratha: Antonine Temple (Bartoccini MS notes) 
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) 
[·· ? ··][i]mp(erator-) II c[o(n-)s(ul-) ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]s XII qu[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] Iacun[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··][··]MPIIC[···· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]SXIIQV[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]IACVN[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
mp
</abbr>
<ex>
erator
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="2" >
II
</num>
c
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
o
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ul
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
s
<num value="12" >
XII
</num>
qu
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
Iacun
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] acclaimed victor twice, consul [? times, holding tribunician power] for the twelfth time [·· ? ··] pools of water [·· ? ··] (case unknown)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 821 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 821 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 900 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 900 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 821 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 821 Leica)

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