Description:
Two fragments, one from the top, the other from the bottom, of a panel of white marble. 
Text:
Inscribed within a moulded border 
Letters:
Second to third century A.D. capitals: 0.05. a) Upper edge, w: 0.155 x h: 0.11. b) Lower edge, w: 0.40 x h: 0.185. 
Date:
Second to third 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) 
a
[·· ? ··]Ạ[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··]rauit [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·· editi]one munerum [·· ? ··]
a
[·· ? ··]·[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··]RAVIT[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ········]ONEMVNERVM[·· ? ··]
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
a
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
rauit
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
editi
</supplied>
one
munerum
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

b: [·· ? ··] by giving of public games [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 821 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 821 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 899 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 899 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 821 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 821 Leica)

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