143. Fragmentary ?honours
- Description:
- Fragment from the lower part of a marble panel (w: 0.39 x h: 0.21).
- Text:
- Inscribed within a moulded border.
- Letters:
- Second to early third centuries A.D. lapidary capitals: l. 1, 0.045; l. 2, 0.04; l. 3, 0.03.
- Date:
- Second to early third centuries A.D.
- 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"
/>
s
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
aquae
ductu
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
q
</supplied>
uae
<expan>
<abbr>
<am>
</abbr>
<g
type="sestertius"
>
</g>
</am>
<ex>
</expan>
sestertiis
</ex>
<num
value="200"
>
CC
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ilibus
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ummum
</ex>
a
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
diectis
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
decretam
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] (l.2) an aqueduct (case unknown)[·· ? ··] which, with 200,000 sesterces added [·· ? ··], (something feminine) having been decreed [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
l. 3. Presumably a reference to the munificence of Flavius Tullus; see also 117, ll. 2-4.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr CS 218 (part))
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 783 Leica)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 218)
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