83. ?Dedication to third century emperors

Description:
Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.37 x h: 0.29, no edges surviving).  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Third century lapidary capitals: 0.09.  
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) 
[·· ? ··] [Cae]s(ar-) n(ostr-) [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] [C]aes(ar-) n(ostr-) [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] fe[c ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··][····]SN[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··][··]AESN[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]FE[···· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Cae
</supplied>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ar
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
ostr
</ex>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
C
</supplied>
aes
</abbr>
<ex>
ar
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
ostr
</ex>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
fe
<supplied reason="lost" >
c
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

1, CAESS EN. 2, CAESS EN.

Translation:

[·· ? ··] Caesar (case unknown) [·· ? ··] our Caesar (case unknown)[·· ? ··] he/she/they made [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVIII.25)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVIII.25)

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