Description:
Fragment (w: 0.64 x h: 0.37) from the right-hand side of a marble panel. 
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving faces. 
Letters:
Third century A.D. capitals: l. 1, decapitated; ll. 2-3, 0.08; l.4, 0.065. 
Date:
Third century A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Sabratha: Church III, (Reg. III, ins. 4), re-used in the pavement of the S aisle. 
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) 
[·· ? ··]o iussit
[·· ? ··]ụt item ob
[·· ? ··]X̣VIIII partium
[·· ? ··]dem testamẹṇ[to]
[·· ? ··]OIVSSIT
[·· ? ··]·TITEMOB
[·· ? ··]·VIIIIPARTIVM
[·· ? ··]DEMTESTAM··[···]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
o
iussit
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="" >
u
</unclear>
t
item
ob
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<num value="19" >
<unclear reason="" >
X
</unclear>
VIIII
</num>
partium
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
dem
testam
<unclear reason="" >
en
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
to
</supplied>
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] he/she ordered [·· ? ··] so that likewise on account of [·· ? ··] of nineteen parts [·· ? ··] by the will of the same [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.VIII.16)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.VIII.16)

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