Description:
Impression left by a fragment of a lost marble panel (w: 1.57 x h: 0.20 when excavated), re-used in the late fourth century A.D. paving of the Curia; see also 126
Text:
Originally inscribed on marble. Read by Bartoccini when first excavated; not seen again. 
Letters:
Capitals: 0.06. 
Date:
Third century A.D. (style of monument)  
Findspot:
Sabratha: Curia, paving 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Now lost. 
Bibliography:
Bartoccini, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, Roma (Ministero dell'Africa Italiana), vol. I, 1950 I:52. 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:
Previous publications. 
[·· ? ··]inuicti Aug(usti) pont(ificis) max(imi) Germanici [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] maximi trib(unicia) pot(estate) [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]INVICTIAVGPONTMAXGERMANICI[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]MAXIMITRIBPOT[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
inuicti
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
ificis
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
imi
</ex>
</expan>
Germanici
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
maximi
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
unicia
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
pot
</abbr>
<ex>
estate
</ex>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] of [·· ? ··] unconquered Augustus, chief priest, victor in Germany, greatest [victor·· ? ··] holding tribunician power [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

Maximinus is the earliest emperor whose titles would conform; but Gallienus, Claudius Gothicus, Aurelian, Probus, Carus, Carinus and Diocletian are all possible. The style of the monument appears to have been of the third century.

Photographs:
none.

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