Description:
Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.17 x h: 0.21, no edges surviving). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Second to third century A.D. capitals: 0.05. 
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) 
[·· ? ··]os [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·· li]bertat[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·· Sabrathenses] p̣ubl[ice]
[·· ? ··]OS[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·····]BERTAT[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ···············]·VBL[····]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
os
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
li
</supplied>
bertat
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Sabrathenses
</supplied>
<unclear reason="" >
p
</unclear>
ubl
<supplied reason="lost" >
ice
</supplied>
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] liberty (case unknown)[·· ? ··the people of Sabratha] publicly.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 906 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 906 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 823 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 823 Leica)

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