Description:
Fragment from the upper part of a panel of white marble (w: 0.20 x h: 0.22 x d: 0.03). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals, Second century A.D.: l. 1, 0.085; l. 2, 0.08. 
Date:
Second century A.D. (lettering)  
Findspot:
Sabratha: Found in the Theatre Road 
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) 
[·· ? ··] Pap(iria tribu) [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·· IIuir] q(uin-)[q(uennal-) ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]PAP[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·····]Q[···· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Pap
</abbr>
<ex>
iria tribu
</ex>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<num >
II
</num>
uir
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
q
</abbr>
<ex>
uin
</ex>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<abbr>
q
</abbr>
<ex>
uennal
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] of the Roman voting tribe Papiria [·· ? ··duovir] in a fifth year [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVIII.22)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVIII.22)

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