Description:
Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.19 x h: 0.24, no edges surviving). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Third century century A.D. capitals: l. 2, 0.055; ll. 3-4, 0.05. 
Date:
Third century 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) 
[·· ? ··]SIIḶ[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] u(ir-) p(erfectissim-) [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·· Sabra]tha [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]ḶOCV[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]SII·[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]VP[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ········]THA[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]·OCV[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
siI
<unclear reason="" >
l
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
u
</abbr>
<ex>
ir
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
erfectissim
</ex>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Sabra
</supplied>
tha
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
l
</unclear>
ocu
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

(l.2)[·· ? ··], excellent man (i.e. of equestrian status )[·· ? ··the city of] Sabratha

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 834 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 834 Leica)

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