140. Fragmentary ?honours
- Description:
- Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.32 x h: 0.18, no edges surviving).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Second to third century A.D. lapidary capitals: l. 1, 0.045; l. 2, 0.04; l.3, 0.03.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<unclear
reason=""
>
i
</unclear>
<unclear
reason=""
>
t
</unclear>
ut
usur
<unclear
reason=""
>
i
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
s
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
entur
big
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
a
</supplied>
m
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
<unclear
reason=""
>
</orig>
i
</unclear>
octau
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<unclear
reason=""
>
p
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
4, Or B or R.
Translation:
.[·· ? ··] in order that from the interest [·· ? ··] they should [erect] a two-horse chariot [·· ? ··] ? eighth [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 786 Leica)
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