80. ?Dedication to a third century emperor
- Description:
- Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.12 x h: 0.11, no edges surviving).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Third century capitals: 0.055.
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
im
</ex>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<num
value="8"
>
VIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
i
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</expan>
<abbr>
mp
</abbr>
<ex>
</supplied>
erator
</ex>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] greatest [·· ? ··] VIII (probably tribunician power), acclaimed victor [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 910 Leica)
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