Description:
Fragment of a panel of white marble ( w: 0.20 x h: 0.18, no edges surviving).  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Third century capitals: 0.06.  
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) 
[·· ? ··] ḶE[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·· Germ]anico ṃ[aximo ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] tr[ibunicia potestate ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]·E[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·······]ANICO·[········ ? ··]
[·· ? ··]TR[····················· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
l
</unclear>
e
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Germ
</supplied>
anico
<unclear reason="" >
m
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
aximo
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
tr
<supplied reason="lost" >
ibunicia
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
potestate
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] greatest victor in Germany, [·· ? ··] holding tribunician [power·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 903 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 903 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 822 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 822 Leica)

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