Description:
Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.24 x h: 0.40, no edges surviving). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Third to fourth centuries A.D. capitals: 0.055.  
Date:
Third to fourth centuries 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) 
〚 [···] 〛
[·· ? ··]uoca[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] praes[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]ṇse[·· ? ··]
5 [·· ? ··]r [·· ? ··]
〚[···]〛
[·· ? ··]VOCA[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]PRAES[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]·SE[·· ? ··]
5[·· ? ··]R[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<del>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
</del>
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
uoca
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
praes
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="" >
n
</unclear>
se
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
r
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

3, ll. 3-4 possibly give praes[idi prouinciae Tripolitanae [·· ? ··] Sabrathe]nse[s]

Translation:

(l.2) ? governor [of the province of Tripolitania·· ? ··] ? the people of Sabratha [·· ? ··] excellent man (i.e. of equestrian status )[·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVIII.26)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVIII.26)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 833 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 833 Leica)

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