Description:
Fragment from the lower part of a marble panel (w: 0.28 x h: 0.33). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: ll. 2-3, 0.065; l. 4, 0.055.  
Date:
Unknown  
Findspot:
Sabratha: Capitolium, found in the vaults; see note on 1
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
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) 
[·· ? ··] Ṛ [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]VSFRV[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·· s]ummae h[onorariae ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]unt ex (sestertiis) [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]·[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]VSFRV[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ····]VMMAEH[············ ? ··]
[·· ? ··]VNTEX sestertius [·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
r
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
usfru
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
s
</supplied>
ummae
h
<supplied reason="lost" >
onorariae
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
unt
ex
<expan>
<abbr>
<am>
<g type="sestertius" > </g>
</am>
</abbr>
<ex>
sestertiis
</ex>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

1, The reading seems certain. Presumably ... ex eius fructibus ..., or a mistake for usufruct...

Translation:

[·· ? ··]? benefit (case unknown)[·· ? ··] of the sum paid for the office [·· ? ··] they [·· ? ··] from [·· ? ··] sesterces [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 780 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 780 Leica)

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