169. Fragment
- Description:
- Panel (w: 1.01 x h: 0.53 x d: 0.17) of grey limestone, burned and badly damaged.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded border (die, w: 0.87 x h: 0.43).
- Letters:
- Third century A.D. capitals: l. 1, 0.07; l. 2, 0.065; l. 3, 0.055.
- Date:
- Third century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Basilica, in the room immediately E of the early S exedra.
- 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"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ucio
</ex>
<unclear
reason=""
>
C
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="5"
unit="character"
precision="circa"
/>
<orig
>
<unclear
reason=""
>
</orig>
io
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="9"
unit="character"
precision="circa"
/>
nio
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="8"
unit="character"
extentmax="9"
/>
<orig
>
n
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="5"
unit="character"
extentmax="6"
/>
nilius
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="12"
unit="character"
precision="circa"
/>
<unclear
reason=""
>
it
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
/>
Translation:
To Lucius C[·· ? ··]nius [·· ? ··]nilius [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 792 Leica)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVIII.39)
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