Description:
The right-hand part of a panel of cream marble (w: 0.47 x h: 0.33). 
Text:
Inscribed within a moulded border. 
Letters:
Second century A.D. lapidary capitals: l. 1, 0.065; ll. 2-3, 0.055. 
Date:
Second 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) 
[·· ? ··]oariam [·· 4··]
[·· ? ··] quae pro
[honore ·· ? ··?]s promiserat
[·· ? ··]OARIAM[·· 4··]
[·· ? ··]QVAEPRO
[········· ? ··?]SPROMISERAT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
oariam
<gap reason="lost" extent="4" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
quae
pro
<lb n="3" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
honore
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" id="gap1" />
s
promiserat
</ab>

1, The reading is certain. Perhaps there was an error in the text, giving summam hono(r)ariam

Translation:

[·· ? ··] which he had promised in return for the office of [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XI.10)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XI.10)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 837 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 837 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVIII.30)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVIII.30)

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