Description:
Two fragments, probably but not certainly from the same panel of cream marble ( w: 0.15 x h: 0.12 and w: 0.11 x h: 0.11, no edges surviving).  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Third century lapidary capitals: a) 0.06; b) 0.045.  
Date:
Third century A.D. (lettering). 
Findspot:
Sabratha: Findspot unrecorded 
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) 
a
[·· ? ··] Aug(usto) [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]o max[imo ·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··] o [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]o max [imo ·· ? ··]
a
[·· ? ··]AVG[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]OMAX[······ ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··]O[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]OMAX[······ ? ··]
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
o
max
<supplied reason="lost" >
imo
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
o
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
o max
<supplied reason="lost" >
imo
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

a. [·· ? ··] Augustus [·· ? ··] greatest [·· ? ··] (case unknown); b. To [·· ? ··] greatest [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 909 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 909 Leica)

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